Survey Data
Reg No
30405504
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1780 - 1820
Coordinates
124823, 245463
Date Recorded
15/12/2009
Date Updated
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Description
Detached four-bay two-storey with dormer attic vernacular house, built c.1800, having direct-entry plan and with single-storey flat-roofed glazed extension to rear. Pitched thatched roof with block ridge and rendered chimneystack, and with stone copings to gables. Rendered over random rubble walls, with raised parallel quoins and eaves course, and rendered plinth. Square-headed openings with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows with leaded pane detail, rendered reveals, and painted stone sills. Square-headed five panel timber entrance door with glazed upper panels. Single-storey ruined outbuilding to rear, and three-bay single-storey rendered outbuilding to west. Set back from road behind rendered boundary wall, with garden to front and side.
Appraisal
Local materials were typically used for thatching and the Shannon River and its tributaries, such as the nearby River Suck, once produced an abundance of water reed for thatching. When this house was re-thatched in 1998, it was covered with reed from Turkey as there was none available locally. Set parallel to the road, this house retains its original form and along with timber sash windows and the traditional thatch, it makes a visually pleasing addition to the architectural heritage of the area.