farm house

Detached three-bay single-storey lobby entry farmhouse with half-dormer attic, extant 1902, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled windbreak. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles off-centred on rendered chimney stack having red brick stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, moss-covered coping to gables, and no rainwater goods on rendered slate flagged eaves. Lime rendered or roughcast battered walls. Square-headed central door opening with concealed dressings framing glazed timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and rendered "bas-relief" 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 compact rectilinear lobby entry plan form centred on a characteristic windbreak; the construction in unrefined local fieldstone displaying a feint battered silhouette; 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; and the high pitched roof showing a rough cut slate finish. Having been reasonably 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 picturesque visual statement in a sylvan street scene.