Survey Data
Reg No
40902228
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1780 - 1820
Coordinates
263406, 439703
Date Recorded
26/09/2008
Date Updated
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Description
Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1800, with single-bay outbuilding to west. Rounded pitched thatched roof with netting restraint and metal rope stays to eaves, smooth rendered chimneystacks with stepped coping and terracotta pots to gables, rendered gable coping, and undulating decorative eaves-course to front elevation. Pitched corrugated-metal roof to extension. Smooth rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with timber casement windows and painted sills. Square-headed door opening with replacement battened timber door. Set within own grounds with rear elevation backing directly onto road.
Appraisal
Despite the loss of original fenestration this remains an attractive vernacular thatched house. Thatched buildings, although still relatively common in Inishowen, nationally are becoming increasingly rare making their survival a matter of importance. 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. House is marked on the Ordnance Survey first edition six-inch map of c. 1837. It forms part of a group with neighbouring thatch to west (see 40902227).