Survey Data
Reg No
30405627
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1780 - 1820
Coordinates
132545, 240718
Date Recorded
27/01/2010
Date Updated
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Description
Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1800, with dormer attic, and having flat-roof entrance porch, and late twentieth-century monopitch extension to rear. Pitched thatched roof with decorative knotting to ridge, low rendered chimneystack and rendered stone copings. Rendered walls with rendered plinth and parallel quoins and eaves course to front. Square-headed window openings with raised render reveals and replacement timber windows and glazed timber panelled door. Set parallel to road with garden to front having rendered boundary wall and piers, and metal garden gate to pathway. Single-storey outbuilding to rear with random rubble walls.
Appraisal
An increasingly rare sight in the landscape, thatched houses are disappearing but are an important physical reminder of the Irish vernacular building tradition. This thatched house still retains its basic form and characteristics such as the thatched roof and low chimneystack. The decorative eaves course and quoins enhance the appearance of the building. The low boundary wall and the outbuildings to the rear complete the grouping.