Survey Data
Reg No
11902702
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1850 - 1890
Coordinates
265870, 208423
Date Recorded
01/11/2002
Date Updated
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Description
Detached four-bay single-storey rubble stone thatched cottage, c.1870, on an L-shaped plan with three-bay return with half-dormer attic to rear to east originally detached single-storey outbuilding. Extensively renovated and extended, c.1990, with single-bay single-storey infill connecting entrance block inserted and dormer attic added. Hipped roofs with thatch (hipped and eyebrow to dormer attic windows). Rope work to ridges. Rendered chimney stacks. Timber eaves and bargeboards. Mud walled construction to original portion. Painted. Rubble stone walls. Repointed, c.1990. Rendered walls to half-dormer attic. Painted. Square-headed window openings. Stone sills (concrete to additional openings). Replacement timber casement windows, c.1990, with some early 3/3 timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening. Glazed timber panelled door, c.1990. Road fronted on a corner site. Hedge boundary to front of entrance bay. Grass verge to front.
Appraisal
This cottage is a fine and extensive building that forms a prominent feature on the Clonegath Crossroads. Comprehensively remodelled and extended in the late twentieth century the building is nevertheless of considerable social and historic significance, representing a surviving component of the vernacular tradition in the county, and includes important features such as a mud-walled construction to the original cottage and a thatched roof - the additions have been made in keeping with the original appearance of the cottage. The amendments made to the cottage allude to the cottage ornee style and result in an attractive landmark in the locality.