Farm house in Kilcaysan, County Wexford

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Detached five-bay single-storey farmhouse with half-dormer attic, extant 1839, on a T-shaped plan off-centred on single-bay single-storey gabled projecting bay. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Vacated, 1995. Now disused. Hipped and pitched slate roof on collared timber construction off-centred on pitched (gabled) slate roof, clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stacks having stepped capping, creeper- or ivy-covered concrete or rendered coping to gables, and cast-iron rainwater goods on slate flagged eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Part creeper- or ivy-covered fine roughcast battered walls. Hipped square-headed off-central door opening with cut-limestone step threshold, and concealed dressings framing timber boarded door having sidelights. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six (ground floor) or three-over-six (half-dormer attic) timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set in unkempt grounds perpendicular to road with piers to perimeter having rubble stone solder course capping supporting iron "farm gate".

A farmhouse representing an integral component of the domestic built heritage of County Wexford with the underlying vernacular basis of the composition suggested by such attributes as the alignment perpendicular to the road; the shallow rectilinear plan form; the feint battered silhouette; the somewhat disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing compounded by the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression; and the high pitched roofline. A prolonged period of unoccupancy notwithstanding, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, thus upholding much of the character or integrity of the composition. Furthermore, adjacent "tin roofed" outbuildings (extant 1904) continue to contribute positively to the group and setting values of a self-contained ensemble having historic connections with the Moulds family including John Moulds (d. 1888), 'Farmer late of Kilcayson [sic] County Wexford' (Calendars of Wills and Administrations 1890, 578); and Wellington Moulds (1868-1954), 'Farmer' (NA 1901; NA 1911).

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 15701605

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