Farm house

Farm house in Wexford, Ireland, dating from 1700–1725

Detached four-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched farmhouse with dormer attic, built 1703 or 1723, on a T-shaped plan off-centred on single-bay single-storey gabled windbreak. Extended, 1831, producing present composition. Occupied, 1911. Vacated, 1995. Derelict, 1998. Restored, 1998-2001. Now disused. Replacement hipped oat thatch roof on collared bough construction with chicken wire-covered exposed wire stretchers to ridge having exposed hazel scallops, rendered red brick Running bond central chimney stack, and blind stretchers to eaves having blind scallops. Limewashed lime rendered battered walls; exposed coursed rubble stone to side (east) elevation. Square-headed off-central door opening with rough hewn limestone step threshold, and concealed dressings including timber lintel framing sheet timber door. Square-headed window openings with rough hewn limestone sills (ground floor) or slate sills (dormer attic), and concealed dressings including timber lintels framing three-over-six timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Interior including (ground floor): off-central lobby; kitchen (east) retaining hearth with propped timber Bressamer beam supporting limewashed wattle-and-daub canopy; and parlour (west) retaining timber chimneypiece. Set in unkempt grounds perpendicular to road with limewashed cylindrical pier to perimeter having conical capping supporting rep

Type:
Farm house

Period:
1700–1725

Where:
Wexford, Ireland

Coordinates:
52.24°N, 6.51°W

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