farmyard complex

Farmyard complex, extant 1840, on a U-shaped plan including: Pair of detached five-bay single-storey outbuildings with half-attics in rectangular plans. Now disused. Pitched corrugated-iron roofs with pressed iron ridges, rendered or slate-covered coping to gables (north) with red brick Flemish bond chimney stacks to apexes having stringcourses below rendered capping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on red brick header bond eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Part creeper- or ivy-covered coursed rubble stone walls with red brick flush quoins to corners. Square-headed door openings including square-headed central loading door openings (half-attic) with red brick block-and-start surrounds framing timber boarded doors. Square-headed window openings with shallow sills, and red brick block-and-start surrounds framing wrought iron bars (ground floor) or louvered timber fittings (half-attic). Set on a corner site centred on screen with pair of square-headed door openings centred on elliptical-headed gateway.

A farmyard complex representing an integral component of the early nineteenth-century built heritage of County Wexford with the architectural value of the composition, one forming the centrepiece of 'the "Kyle Model Gardens" established by Christopher George Harvey [1797-1848] and intended for the practical instruction of the labourer in garden husbandry…on the system of the "London Labourers' Friend Society"' (Lewis 1837 II, 198), suggested by such attributes as the open-ended quadrangular footprint centred on a symmetrically-composed screen; and the construction in unrefined local fieldstone offset by red brick dressings producing a pleasing palette (cf. 15703234).