Survey Data
Reg No
31312310
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1700 - 1838
Coordinates
122111, 251622
Date Recorded
08/03/2012
Date Updated
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Description
Detached four-bay single-storey direct entry thatched house, extant 1838[?]. Renovated. Part chicken wire-covered pitched reed or straw thatch roof with exposed stretchers to raised ridge having exposed scallops, rendered dwarf chimney stack having "Cavetto"-detailed stringcourse below capping supporting terracotta pots, and concrete or rendered coping to gables. Replacement cement rendered battered walls. Square-headed window openings with sills, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Square-headed opposing door openings with concealed dressings framing timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled half-doors. Set in landscaped grounds.
Appraisal
A house identified as an integral component of the vernacular heritage of Glencorrib by such traits as the rectilinear direct entry plan form; the construction in unrefined local fieldstone demonstrating a feint battered silhouette; the disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing; and the high pitched roof showing a thatch finish.