house

Detached four-bay single-storey thatched house, extant 1841, on a rectangular plan. Undergoing repair, 2003. Hipped water reed thatch roof with grouped exposed stretchers to raised ridge having exposed scallops, rendered dwarf chimney stack (north) having stepped capping, and blind stretchers to eaves having blind scallops. Rendered battered walls with brick-faced shuttered concrete battered buttress (north). 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. Set perpendicular to lane with rendered piers to perimeter having precast concrete segmental capping.

A house identified as an important component of the vernacular heritage of County Waterford by such attributes as the alignment perpendicular to the lane; 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.