Farm house in Ballymitty, County Wexford

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Detached four-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched farmhouse with dormer attic, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan off-centred on single-bay single-storey lean-to windbreak. Renovated, 1999. For sale, 2009. Chicken wire-covered replacement hipped oat thatch roof on collared split bough construction with blind stretchers to ridge having blind scallops, limewashed rendered red brick Running bond off-central chimney stack having corbelled stepped capping supporting iron pot, and blind stretchers to eaves having blind scallops. Limewashed rendered battered walls. Square-headed off-central door opening with concrete threshold, and concealed dressings including timber lintel framing glazed timber boarded door. Square-headed window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings including timber lintels framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing two-over-two timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings (gables) with concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings including timber lintels framing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set back from line of road with limewashed cylindrical piers to perimeter having conical capping supporting flat iron "farm gate".

A farmhouse identified as an important component of the vernacular heritage of south County Wexford by such attributes as the rectilinear lobby entry plan form off-centred on a characteristic windbreak; the construction in unrefined local materials displaying a battered silhouette; the somewhat disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing; and the high pitched roof showing a replenished oat thatch finish. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with quantities of the historic or original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior: however, the introduction of replacement fittings to most of the openings has not had a beneficial impact on the character or integrity of the composition. Furthermore, adjacent limewashed outbuildings (extant 1903); and a "cow tail" waterpump (extant 1922), all continue to contribute positively to the group and setting values of a neat self-contained ensemble making a pleasing visual statement in a sylvan street scene.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 15704112

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