farm house, farmyard complex

Detached three-bay two-storey farm house, built c.1850, with two-storey single-storey return to rear (north). Pitched natural slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, terracotta chimney pots and cast-iron rainwater goods. Lime rendered rubble limestone walls. Square-headed window openings with cut stone sills and timber sash windows. Corrugated metal lean-to porch to back door. Enclosed farmyard to rear (north) with collection of two-storey rubble limestone outbuildings with pitched slate roofs, integral segmental-headed carriage arches and square-headed window openings with timber louvered vents. Cast-iron hand pump with stone trough to centre enclosed of enclosed yard with a vernacular wrought-iron gate to entrance (east).

An attractive middle-sized farm house and farmyard complex that retains its early form, character and fabric. It is typical of the many farm houses built in the Irish countryside during the mid-to-late nineteenth-century, few of which now survive in anything like their early condition. The appealing complex of outbuildings to the rear, constructed in local limestone rubble, and the wrought-iron gates and hand pump add to the group value of this interesting, and increasingly rare, vernacular complex.