farm house

Detached five-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched farmhouse, extant 1840, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled windbreak. Occupied, 1987. Stabilised, ----. Now disused. Corrugated-iron-covered hipped oat thatch roof on collared timber construction with pressed iron ridge centred on red brick Running bond chimney stack having stepped capping, and uPVC rainwater goods on corrugated-iron-covered eaves. Limewashed rendered battered walls. Square-headed central door opening in segmental-headed recess with concealed dressings framing timber boarded door. Square-headed flanking window openings with shallow sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set in unkempt grounds at angle to road with limewashed piers to perimeter having shallow pyramidal capping supporting flat iron "farm gate".

A farmhouse identified as an integral component of the vernacular heritage of County Wexford by such attributes as the alignment at an angle to the road; 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); and the high pitched roof showing a protected oat thatch finish (cf. 15612023; 15700723; 15701608; 15702220; 15703326; 15703330; 15703753; 1573757; 15704107). 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 rural street scene.