farm house

Detached four-bay single-storey lobby entry farmhouse with half-dormer attic, extant 1902, on a rectangular plan off-centred single-bay single-storey lean-to windbreak. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered red brick Running bond off-central chimney stack having paired stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, concrete or rendered coping to gables, and no rainwater goods surviving on slate flagged eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Part creeper- or ivy-covered fine roughcast coursed rubble stone wals with concealed flush quoins to corners. Square-headed off-central door opening with overgrown threshold, and concealed dressings including timber lintel framing timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed red brick block-and-start surrounds framing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set in unkempt grounds perpendicular to road.

A farmhouse identified as an integral component of the nineteenth-century vernacular heritage of County Wexford by such attributes as the alignment perpendicular to the road; the rectilinear lobby entry plan form off-centred a characteristic windbreak; the somewhat disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing compounded by the slight diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a feint graduated visual impression; and the high pitched roofline. A prolonged period of unoccupancy notwithstanding, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, thus upholding much of the character or integrity of the composition. Furthermore, adjacent outbuildings (extant 1902) continue to contribute positively to the group and setting values of a neat self-contained ensemble making a pleasing, if increasingly forlorn visual statement in a sylvan street scene.