Survey Data
Reg No
30409609
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1780 - 1820
Coordinates
147048, 222944
Date Recorded
02/09/2009
Date Updated
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Description
Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1800, with attic, and having recent flat-roofed porch to front (north-east) elevation and flat roofed extension to rear. Pitched thatched roof with low rendered chimneystack. Roughcast rendered walls with rendered plinth course. Square-headed window openings with painted stone sills and replacement timber windows. Square-headed door opening with replacement timber door. Rendered plinth wall to front of site with wrought-iron pedestrian gate, bounding small garden.
Appraisal
Modest in design and scale, this vernacular house exhibits the simple and functional form of the type in Ireland. Its location on the main Dublin to Galway road it is a notable feature along the roadscape.