Survey Data
Reg No
30411015
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
House
Date
1780 - 1820
Coordinates
85508, 210273
Date Recorded
11/08/2009
Date Updated
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Description
Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1800. Now unoccupied. Pitched roped thatch roof with crow-stepped gables, and rendered chimneystack. Rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening set into windrbreak having concrete sides and flat roof, with glazed timber door. Ruined outbuilding to east and ruins of several dwellings to west.
Appraisal
This building is one of the more intact of the unoccupied thatched houses on Árainn. The clearly evident crow-steps of the gables make this house distinctive, as does the retention of the Atlantic tradition of roped thatch. It stands in a former settlement cluster, now largely deserted.