Survey Data
Reg No
40900434
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
House
Date
1830 - 1850
Coordinates
250358, 448776
Date Recorded
25/09/2008
Date Updated
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Description
Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1840, with windbreak porch, bed outshot to rear and single-storey outbuildings to each gable. Pitched thatched roof with smooth rendered gable ended chimneystacks with rendered coping. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered porch. Square-headed window openings with two-over-two timber sash windows with painted reveals and sills. Square-headed door opening with matchboard timber door. Set in field by the Culdaff to Malin road.
Appraisal
Although now disused, this vernacular thatched house still retains a sound external structure and good thatch and its characteristic bed outshot. The outshot has unusually been fenestrated. It is typical of a type of small dwelling that was once common throughout the country and now becoming increasingly rare. The rounded pitched roof, designed to minimise the impact of high winds, demonstrates a subtle adaptation of thatch roof construction, to accommodate local climatic conditions in exposed areas such as Inishowen. It is not shown on the Ordnance Survey first edition six-inch map of c. 1837.