Farm house in Ballyvelig

Detached five-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched farmhouse with dormer attic, extant 1840, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey lean-to windbreak. Occupied, 1990. Vacant, 2007. Pitched thatch roof on a T-shaped plan centred on lean-to slate roof (windbreak), remains of exposed stretchers to degraded ridge having exposed scallops, cement rendered central chimney stack having corbelled stepped capping, concrete coping to gables, and blind stretchers to eaves having blind scallops. Creeper- or ivy-covered lime rendered battered walls; part creeper- or ivy-covered roughcast surface finish to rear (north) elevation centred on battered buttress. Square-headed central door opening with concealed dressings framing timber panelled door. Square-headed flanking window openings with concealed dressings framing two-over-two (west) or six-over-six (east) timber sash windows. Set in courtyard.

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 centred on a characteristic windbreak; the construction in unrefined local materials displaying a battered silhouette with sections of "daub" or mud suggested by an entry in the "House and Building Return Form" of the National Census (NA 1901; NA 1911); the somewhat disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing; and the high pitched roof showing a degraded thatch finish. A prolonged period of unoccupancy notwithstanding, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, thus upholding much of the character or integrity of a farmhouse making a pleasing visual statement in a sylvan setting.