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Detached three-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched house, extant 1840, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed windbreak. Renovated, ----. For sale, 2010. Replacement pitched water reed thatch roof with paired exposed steel stretchers to decorative raised ridge having exposed wire scallops, limewashed red brick Running bond chimney stack supporting terracotta pot, rendered coping to gables, and blind stretchers to eaves having blind scallops. Limewashed rendered battered walls; limewashed rendered surface finish to rear (north) elevation with cement rendered battered buttresses. Square-headed central door opening with concealed dressings including timber lintel framing replacement timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled half-door. Square-headed flanking window openings with concealed dressings framing replacement two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set perpendicular to road on a corner site with limewashed piers to perimeter having rounded pyramidal capping supporting timber gate.

A house identified as an integral component of the vernacular heritage of south County Wexford by such attributes as the alignment perpendicular to the road; the rectilinear lobby entry plan form centred on a characteristic windbreak; the construction in unrefined local materials displaying a battered silhouette; the disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing; and the high pitched roof latterly showing a non-indigenous Turkish water reed thatch finish.