Little Thatch

Detached four-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched house, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan off-centred on single-bay single-storey gabled windbreak. Hipped oat thatch roof with rope twist above exposed wire stretchers to ridge having blind scallops, cement rendered off-central chimney stack having concrete capping supporting terracotta pot, and remains of exposed wire stretchers to eaves having blind scallops. Rendered battered walls with rendered battered buttress to rear (east) elevation. Square-headed off-central door opening in elliptical-headed recess with threshold, and concealed dressings framing timber boarded door. Square-headed window openings with shallow sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set back from line of road with rendered piers to perimeter having concrete capping supporting barley twist-detailed wrought iron gate.

A house identified as an integral component of the vernacular heritage of County Wexford by such attributes as the rectilinear lobby entry plan form off-centred on a characteristic windbreak; the construction in unrefined local materials displaying a battered silhouette with sections of "daub" or mud suggested by an entry in the "House and Building Return" Form of the National Census (NA 1901; NA 1911); the somewhat disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing; and the high pitched roof showing an oat thatch finish. Having been well maintained, the elementary 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 visual statement in a rural street scene.