White Hall

Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse with dormer attic, extant 1771, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to ground floor. "Improved"¸ pre-1902, producing present composition. Occupied, 1911. Refenestrated, ----. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, lichen-spotted rendered coping to gables with rendered red brick Running bond chimney stacks to apexes having corbelled stepped stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta tapered pots, rooflights to rear (east) pitch, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining some cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined walls with rusticated rendered quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings centred on square-headed window opening originally in bipartite arrangement (ground floor) with concrete sills, and concealed dressings having bull nose-detailed reveals framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing six-over-six timber sash windows. Set back from road in landscaped grounds.

A farmhouse representing an integral component of the eighteenth-century domestic built heritage of south County Wexford with the architectural value of the composition, one erected by or for a tenant on the Loftus estate (Colfer 2004, 146-7), suggested by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form centred on a restrained doorcase, albeit only largely concealed behind a later porch; the uniform or near-uniform proportions of the openings on each floor; and the high pitched roofline. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior: however, the introduction of replacement fittings to most of the openings has not had a beneficial impact on the character or integrity of the composition. Furthermore, adjacent outbuildings (extant 1902) continue to contribute positively to the group and setting values of a neat self-contained ensemble having historic connections with the rice family including Richard Rice (d. 1915), 'Farmer late of Whitehall County Wexford' (Calendars of Wills and Administrations 1915, 618).