Old Mill Cottage, house in County Wexford

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Detached four-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched house, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan off-centred on single-bay single-storey lean-to windbreak. Refenestrated, ----. Reroofed, ----. Chicken wire-covered replacement hipped oat thatch roof with exposed hazel lattice stretchers to ridge having exposed scallops, cement rendered off-central chimney stack having concrete capping supporting terracotta pot, and exposed hazel stretchers to eaves having exposed scallops. Roughcast battered walls. Square-headed off-central door opening with concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC panelled door replacing timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing two-over-two timber sash windows. Set back from line of bypassed road in landscaped grounds.

A house identified as an integral component of the vernacular heritage of Ballyedmond 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 disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing; and the high pitched roof showing a replenished oat thatch finish: however, the introduction of replacement fittings to the openings has not had a beneficial impact on the external expression or integrity of a house forming part of a self-contained group alongside adjacent houses (see 15702127 - 15702128) with the resulting ensemble making a picturesque visual statement in a rural village street scene presently (2007) undergoing "suburban" development.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 15702126

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