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Detached four-bay single-storey thatched house, extant 1841, on a rectangular plan; three-bay single-storey rear (west) elevation. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Hipped (south) and pitched (north) water reed thatched roof with exposed lattice stretchers to raised ridge having exposed scallops, cement rendered chimney stack (north) having stepped capping, and blind stretchers to eaves having blind scallops. Limewashed rendered battered walls. Square-headed door opening with concealed dressings framing timber boarded half-door. Square-headed window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Square-headed window openings to rear (west) elevation with concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows having part exposes sash boxes. Set in own grounds with piers to perimeter having lichen-spotted rendered rounded capping supporting tubular mild steel "farm gate".

A house identified as an important component of the vernacular heritage of County Waterford by such attributes as the compact 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 thatch finish. Having been well maintained, the 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, if largely inconspicuous visual statement in a rural village street scene. NOTE: Occupied (1901; 1911) by John Ormonde (----), 'Black Smith' (NA 1901; NA 1911).