Farm house in Whitehouse

Detached five-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched farmhouse, extant 1839, on a rectangular plan originally four-bay single-storey. Hipped water reed thatch roof with chicken wire-covered exposed hazel lattice stretchers to raised ridge having exposed scallops, dwarf chimney stack having red brick capping supporting yellow terracotta pot, and blind stretchers to eaves having blind scallops. Roughcast battered walls on rendered plinth. Square-headed door opening with concealed dressings framing timber boarded door. Square-headed window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Set perpendicular to road on a corner site.

A house identified as an important component of the vernacular heritage of County Kilkenny by such attributes as the rectilinear plan form; the construction in unrefined local fieldstone displaying a feint battered silhouette; the disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing; and the high pitched roof showing a replenished oat thatch finish. Having been 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 house making a pleasing visual statement in a rural street scene.