farm house

Detached four-bay single-storey thatched farmhouse, extant 1841, on a rectangular plan with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed advanced porch. Hipped or hipped gabled water reed thatch roof with exposed lattice stretchers to raised ridge having exposed scallops, rendered dwarf chimney stack (east), and blind stretchers to eaves having blind scallops. Rendered battered walls. Square-headed door opening. Square-headed window openings with rendered near-flush sills, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Set in own grounds with rendered piers to perimeter having segmental capping supporting flat iron-braced "farm gate".

A farmhouse 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 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 the composition. Furthermore, an adjacent "tin roofed" outbuildings (----) continue to contribute positively to the group and setting values of a self-contained ensemble making a pleasing visual statement in a rural street scene.