Goldentown House

Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse with dormer attic, occupied 1901, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to ground floor. Renovated, 1996. Replacement pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, concrete or rendered coping to gables, and no rainwater goods on box eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Gritdashed roughcast battered wall to front (south) elevation bellcast over rendered plinth with rusticated rendered piers to ends; roughcast battered surface finish (remainder). Central door opening into farmhouse with glazed timber panelled double doors. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds.

A farmhouse representing an integral component of the domestic built heritage of County Wexford with the architectural value of the composition, one repurposing the shell of an eighteenth-century house annotated as "Goldenstown House (In Ruins)" on the first edition of the Ordnance Survey (surveyed 1840; published 1841), suggested by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form centred on a featureless doorcase, albeit one largely obscured by a later porch; the battered silhouette; and the very slight diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a feint graduated visual impression. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, thus upholding much of the character or integrity of a farmhouse having historic connections with the Hickey family (NA 1901; NA 1911).