Farm house in Kitestown, County Wexford

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Detached three- or five-bay single-storey single-pile farmhouse, built 1870, on a rectangular plan with single-bay two-storey side elevations. Hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles, paired rendered central chimney stacks having corbelled stepped stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Creeper- or ivy-covered rendered, ruled and lined walls with rusticated rendered quoins to corners. Segmental-headed central door opening with lichen-spotted threshold supporting cast-iron bootscraper, and concealed dressings framing glazed timber door having overlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors, staircase on a dog leg plan with turned timber balusters supporting carved timber banister terminating in turned timber newels, and timber surrounds to door openings to landing framing timber panelled door. Set in landscaped grounds with limewashed rendered piers to perimeter having cut-granite shallow pyramidal capping supporting "Fleur-de-Lys"-detailed wrought iron double gates.

A farmhouse erected by John Hinton (d. 1900) representing an integral component of the later nineteenth-century domestic built heritage of County Wexford with the architectural value of the composition, one intended 'to create the maximum impression at the minimum cost' (Rowe and Scallan 2004, 638), suggested by such attributes as the compact rectilinear footprint; the curiously asymmetrical frontage centred on a restrained doorcase; and the uniform or near-uniform proportions of the openings on each floor. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the historic or original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, thus upholding the character or integrity of the composition. Furthermore, adjacent limewashed outbuildings (extant 1903) continue to contribute positively to the group and setting values of a self-contained ensemble making a pleasing visual statement in a sylvan street scene.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 15703768

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