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Detached two-bay two-storey house, extant 1840, on a square plan. In alternative use, 1901-72. Sold, 1976. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, chimney stacks not visible, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipe. Slate hung walls. Hipped segmental-headed door opening with timber mullions on cut-granite step threshold supporting timber transom, and concealed dressings framing timber panelled door having sidelights below overlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Set back from road in landscaped grounds with rendered, ruled and lined piers to perimeter having lichen-spotted capping supporting looped wrought iron gate.

A house representing an integral component of the early nineteenth-century domestic built heritage of south County Wexford with the architectural value of the composition, one allegedly erected by Caesar Colclough (1766-1824) for two spinster aunts (Rowe and Scallan 2004, 791), suggested by such attributes as the compact, near-square plan form; and the 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 substantial quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, including a slate hung surface finish, thereby upholding the character or integrity of a house having subsequent connections with the Horeswood parish Catholic curacy including Reverend James Forrestal (----), 'Clergyman' (NA 1901); and Reverend James Somers (----), 'Catholic Curate' (NA 1911).