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Farm house in Slevoy

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Farm house in Slevoy
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Detached four-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched farmhouse with dormer attic, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan off-centred on single-bay single-storey gabled windbreak. Refenestrated, ----. Tarpaulin-covered hipped oat thatch roof with rendered off-central chimney stack having red brick stringcourse below…

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Detached four-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched farmhouse with dormer attic, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan off-centred on single-bay single-storey gabled windbreak. Refenestrated, ----. Tarpaulin-covered hipped oat thatch roof with rendered off-central chimney stack having red brick stringcourse below capping. Roughcast battered walls bellcast over rendered plinth. Square-headed off-central door opening with concrete step threshold, and concealed dressings framing replacement glazed timber panelled door. Remodelled square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement timber casement windows. Square-headed window openings to gables to side elevations with concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Interior including off-central lobby with "spy hole". Set in courtyard.
A farmhouse identified as an integral component of the vernacular heritage of County Wexford by such attributes as the rectilinear lobby entry plan form; the construction in unrefined local materials displaying a pronounced battered silhouette with sections of ""daub"" or mud suggested by an entry in the ""House and Building Return"" Form of the National Census (NA 1901; NA 1911); and the high pitched roof showing a protected oat thatch finish (cf. 15612023; 15700723; 15701608; 15702208; 15702220; 15703326; 15703330; 15703753; 15703757).

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 15704107

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