farm house

Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, built c.1920, with two-storey return, single-storey entrance porch. Hipped slate roof, clay ridge tiles, tall red brickstacks with yellow brick decorative band. Replacement uPVC rainwater goods. Ruled-and-lined rendered walls to ground floor below a stucco platband under first floor sills, rusticated stucco quoins, and pebbledash to first floor. Roughcast rendered walls to rear elevation and return. Flat roofed porch having ruled-and-lined rendered walls and gadroon-profiled concrete pediment as blocking course. One-over-one timber sliding sash windows with wide margin panes, raised stucco architrave, and stone sills. Replacement door and side lights. Vernacular building attached to east gable serving as side entrance porch having a curved corrugated iron roof and cast-iron rainwater goods. Early vernacular farmhouse complex, c.1820, retained within farmyard to the south-east. Pitched corrugated-iron roofs and timber battened doors.

A substantial, well-built, early twentieth-century farmhouse attached to an older farmyard complex, with the single-storey building attached to the east gable probably being the early nineteenth century vernacular farmhouse, shown on historic Ordnance Survey maps. The farmhouse displays a number of formal features including rusticated stucco quoins, raised window architraves, porch with blocking course, and finely detailed windows with wide margin panes. It provides insight into the aspirations of the strong-farmer class in the period of Irish independence. The earlier vernacular outbuildings add to its context and setting.