Farm house in Petitstown

Detached three-bay single-storey farmhouse with half-dormer attic, extant 1840, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled advanced porch. Now disused. Hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles, paired rendered central chimney stacks having chamfered capping, and remains of cast-iron rainwater goods on limewashed rendered eaves. Part creeper- or ivy-covered limewashed rendered battered walls. Segmental-headed central door opening over overgrown threshold, and concealed dressings framing timber panelled door having overlight. Square-headed window openings with lichen-spotted sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six (ground floor) or three-over-six (half-dormer attic) timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set in unkempt grounds.

A farmhouse representing an integral component of the domestic built heritage of south County Wexford with the underlying vernacular basis of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form centred on a windbreak-like porch; the battered silhouette; and the disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing compounded by the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression.