farm house

Detached three-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched farmhouse, extant 1837, on a rectangular plan. Renovated, ----. Hipped oat straw thatch roof, rope twist ridge with exposed stretchers having exposed scallops, rendered central chimney stack having stringcourse below red brick caping, and exposed stretchers to eaves having exposed scallops. Rendered, ruled and lined battered walls. Square-headed central door opening with concealed dressings framing replacement glazed timber panelled door. Square-headed flanking window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement timber casement windows. Set back from line of road with rendered piers to perimeter having capping supporting flat iron gate.

A farmhouse identified as an integral component of the vernacular heritage of County Kildare by such attributes as the compact 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); the disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing; and the high pitched roof showing an oat straw thatch finish. Furthermore, an adjacent thatched byre (----); and a "tin roofed" outbuilding (----), all continue to contribute positively to the group and setting values of a self-contained ensemble making a pleasing visual statement in a rural street scene.