Survey Data
Reg No
30410512
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1780 - 1820
Coordinates
155848, 213924
Date Recorded
17/09/2009
Date Updated
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Description
Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1800, having two-storey addition to rear with porch. Hipped reed thatch roof with raised scolloped ridge, and rendered chimneystack. Roughcast rendered battered walls. Square-headed timber windows with painted sills, with angled window to north-west (rear) corner. Square-headed door opening in windbreak porch having half-glazed timber panelled door.
Appraisal
This house retains a strong sense of its original character, its vernacular origins highlighted by the scolloped reed thatch roof. The angled window to the rear adds further interest. Such houses form an increasingly important survival, as thatched structures are becoming rarer in the Irish countryside.