farm house

Detached three-bay single-storey farmhouse with half-dormer attic, built 1860, on a square plan. Sold, 1902. Occupied, 1911. Pitched slate roof centred on gablet to window opening to half-dormer attic with ridge tiles, paired rendered central chimney stacks having concrete capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on box eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered walls. Square-headed central door opening approached by flight of three steps, concealed dressings with rendered red brick header bond hood moulding over framing glazed timber panelled door having overlight. Square-headed flanking window openings with shallow sills, and concealed dressings with rendered red brick header bond hood mouldings over framing four-over-four timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors; and timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set in landscaped grounds.

A farmhouse representing an integral component of the mid nineteenth-century domestic built heritage of the environs of Kiltealy with the architectural value of the composition, one colloquially known as "Argoe's House", suggested by such attributes as the compact square plan form centred on an understated doorcase; the streamlined dressings underpinning a restrained Tudor-esque theme; and the gablet embellishing a high pitched roofline. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, thus upholding much of the character or integrity of a farmhouse making a pleasing, if largely inconspicuous visual statement in a sylvan setting.