Survey Data
Reg No
40901140
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1780 - 1820
Coordinates
250895, 443649
Date Recorded
08/10/2008
Date Updated
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Description
Detached five-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1800, with windbreak porch to front and bed outshot to rear. Outbuilding extension to east gable, and modern single-storey house adjoined to rear. Rounded thatched roof with netting restraint and metal rope stays to eaves, smooth rendered chimneystacks with stepped cornices to gables. flat-roof to east extension. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered articulated chamfered block-and-start quoins and plinth, and with diamond motif to west gable. Square-headed window openings with timber casement windows and painted sills. Square-headed door opening with replacement half-glazed timber door. Set within own grounds in Effishmore, to the south-east of Carndonagh.
Appraisal
An attractive vernacular house, with its characteristic thatch roof and bed outshot, which appears to have undergone successive restorations and extensions, but still retains its character and integrity. The rounded pitched roof is designed to minimise the impact of high winds, demonstrating the subtle adaptation of more common thatch detail to accommodate local climatic variations in exposed areas such as the Inishowen peninsula. The house is shown as part of a clachan settlement on the Ordnance Survey first edition six-inch map of c. 1837.