Survey Data
Reg No
30405402
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1780 - 1820
Coordinates
111989, 243791
Date Recorded
07/01/2009
Date Updated
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Description
Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1800, having recent porch to front elevation and two-bay flat-roof extension to north-west end. Pitched water reed thatched roof with raised scolloped ridge and low rendered chimneystack. Rendered walls with slightly battered base. Square-headed window openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and painted sills. Porch has hipped thatched roof and glazed timber sides over rendered concrete walls and square-headed glazed timber door with square-headed inner door to house proper. Yard to front of house and rendered gate piers with recent timber gate to road.
Appraisal
This thatched house is representative of west Galway and retains features typical of vernacular houses, such as small window openings with timber sash windows and a low chimneystack. It is one of a very few thatched houses surviving in the district.