farm house

Detached four-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched farmhouse with dormer attic, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan off-centred on single-bay single-storey gabled windbreak. Reroofed, 2006. Part chicken wire-covered replacement hipped oat thatch roof on collared timber construction, paired exposed hazel stretchers to ridge having exposed scallops, cement rendered off-central dwarf chimney stack having concrete capping, and paired exposed hazel stretchers to eaves having exposed scallops. Limewashed lime rendered battered wall to front (east) elevation with limewashed lime rendered buttress; limewashed cement rendered battered surface finish (remainder). Square-headed off-central door opening with concrete step threshold, and concealed dressings framing replacement timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings with limewashed concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Set back from road with rendered piers to perimeter having rounded capping supporting replacement tubular steel "farm gate".

A farmhouse identified as an integral component of the vernacular heritage of County Wexford by such attributes as the compact rectilinear lobby entry plan form off-centred on a characteristic windbreak; the construction in unrefined local materials displaying a pronounced 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); the disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing; and the high pitched roof showing a replenished oat thatch finish. Having been well maintained, 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 the character or integrity of the composition. Furthermore, adjacent outbuildings (extant 1903) 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.