Survey Data
Reg No
30411016
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
House
Date
1780 - 1820
Coordinates
85932, 210235
Date Recorded
11/08/2009
Date Updated
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Description
Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1800, having attic, and with opposed doors in long walls. Pitched roped thatch roof with crow-stepped gables, and low rendered chimneystack. Rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to front and fixed two-pane and replacement timber windows to rear, all with painted sills. Square-headed door opening with replacement timber door. Rear timber battened door set into windbreak with concrete sides and flat roof. Ruined outbuilding to west gable.
Appraisal
This derelict thatched house is one of the small number of surviving thatched houses on Árainn. The crow-stepped gables and opposed doorways, as well as the roped thatch, make it typical of Atlantic coast and island houses. The presence of a second thatched house adjacent to it adds to its landscape setting.