Survey Data
Reg No
30405505
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1780 - 1820
Coordinates
125014, 245454
Date Recorded
15/12/2009
Date Updated
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Description
Detached four-bay single-storey with dormer attic direct-entry vernacular house, built c.1800, and having single-storey flat-roofed mid-twentieth-century extension to rear. Pitched thatched roof with block ridge and rendered chimneystack, and having stone copings to gables. Rendered over random battered rubble walls. Square-headed openings with replacement timber casement windows throughout, with painted stone sills. Square-headed battened timber entrance door, with glazed upper section. Single-storey random rubble outbuilding to front, perpendicular to house, having pitched corrugated-iron roof. Buiildings set back from road behind rendered boundary wall with square gate piers and metal farm gate.
Appraisal
Over time more and more traditional thatched dwellings have disappeared from the Irish countryside. This house has retained much of its original form and with the addition of the adjacent outbuilding is a good example of a traditional rural farmyard. This house and land was gifted to the owners in the mid-twentieth century by a local family in return for years of service. It has inherent social and architectural significance and is an important addition to the architectural heritage of the area.