farm house

Detached five-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched farmhouse with dormer attic, extant 1840, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled windbreak. Occupied, 1990. "Restored", 1997. Chicken wire-covered hipped oat thatch roof with exposed hazel lattice stretchers to degraded ridge having exposed scallops, cement rendered off-central chimney stack having concrete capping supporting terracotta pots, and exposed hazel stretchers to eaves having exposed scallops. Gritdashed roughcast battered wall to front (east) elevation on rendered plinth; limewashed surface finish (remainder) with limewashed battered buttresses. Square-headed central door opening with rendered lugged flush surround framing timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings with rendered lugged flush surrounds framing six-over-six timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set back from road in landscaped grounds with limewashed cylindrical piers to perimeter having rendered domed capping supporting flat iron gate.

A farmhouse identified as an integral component of the vernacular heritage of south County Wexford by such attributes as the rectilinear lobby entry plan form centred on a characteristic windbreak; the construction in unrefined local materials displaying a pronounced battered silhouette with a flaking surface finish revealing evidence of "daub" or mud; the somewhat disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing; and the high pitched roof showing an oat thatch finish "restored" (1997) by Foras Áiseanna Saothair (FÁS). Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, thus upholding the character or integrity of a farmhouse making a pictures visual statement in a sylvan street scene.