farm house

Detached three-bay two-storey part double-pile farmhouse, extant 1840, on a T-shaped plan originally three-bay two-storey single-pile on a rectangular plan centred on single-bay two-storey flat-roofed projecting breakfront. "Improved", ----, producing present composition. Pitched part double-pile (M-profile) slate roof centred on flat bitumen felt roof (breakfront) with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond off-central chimney stack having stepped capping, concrete or rendered coping to gables, and no rainwater goods surviving on rendered slate flagged eaves with cast-iron rainwater goods to rear (west) elevation on rendered eaves. Roughcast battered walls bellcast over rendered plinth; rendered surface finish to rear (west) elevation. Square-headed central door opening approached by flight of three concrete steps with concealed dressings framing timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings to rear (west) elevation with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set back from road in landscaped grounds with limewashed piers to perimeter supporting flat iron "farm gate".

A farmhouse representing an integral component of the domestic built heritage of County Wexford with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact plan form centred on an expressed breakfront; and the somewhat disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing compounded by the uniform or near-uniform proportions of the openings on each floor: meanwhile, aspects of the composition clearly illustrate the continued development or "improvement" of the farmhouse in the early twentieth century. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the historic or original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, thus upholding the character or integrity of the composition. Furthermore, adjacent "tin roofed" outbuildings (extant 1840) 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.