farm house

Detached four-bay two-storey farmhouse, extant 1885, on a rectangular plan. Occupied, 1911. Hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles, and remains of cast-iron rainwater goods on slate or stone flagged eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Part creeper- or ivy-covered coursed rubble stone walls originally lime rendered or roughcast with red brick flush quoins to corners. Hipped or lugged square-headed off-central door opening in shallow camber-headed recess with terracotta tiled threshold, timber mullions, and red brick block-and-start surround framing glazed timber boarded door having sidelights. Square-headed window openings in shallow camber-headed recesses with cut-granite sills, and red brick block-and-start surrounds framing six-over-six timber sash windows. Set back from road in own grounds with rendered, ruled and lined piers to perimeter having moss-covered pyramidal capping supporting arrow head-detailed wrought iron gate.

A farmhouse representing an integral component of the nineteenth-century domestic built heritage of north County Wexford with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form; and the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression. Having been reasonably 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 1904) continue to contribute positively to the group and setting values of a self-contained ensemble having historic connections with the Masterson family including William Masterson (Bassett 1885, 389).