Farm house in Kyle Upper, County Wexford

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Attached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, extant 1840, on a cruciform plan centred on single-bay full-height gabled breakfront on a shallow half-octagonal plan; three-bay single-storey lean-to return along rear (north) elevation. Occupied, 1911. Refenestrated, ----. Now disused. Pitched slate roof centred on pitched (gabled) slate roof with clay ridge tiles, grouped rendered diagonal chimney stacks (north) on rendered panelled base supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, timber bargeboards to gable on timber purlins, and remains of cast-iron rainwater goods on limewashed red brick header bond eaves. Limewashed rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with shallow sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement fixed-pane timber fittings. Set in unkempt grounds.

A farmhouse representing an integral component of the early nineteenth-century domestic built heritage of County Wexford with the architectural value of the composition, one forming part of 'the "Kyle Model Gardens" established by Christopher George Harvey [1797-1848] and intended for the practical instruction of the labourer in garden husbandry…on the system of the "London Labourers' Friend Society"' (Lewis 1837 II, 198), suggested by such attributes as the compact plan form centred on a polygonal breakfront; the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression; and the high pitched roofline (cf. 15703233).

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 15703234

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