Survey Data
Reg No
30405628
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1780 - 1820
Coordinates
130704, 240288
Date Recorded
16/12/2009
Date Updated
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Description
Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1800, with dormer attic and having late twentieth-century single-storey extension to rear. Pitched thatched roof with decorative knotting to raised ridge, and rendered chimneystack, stone copings and cement work to eaves. Pebbledashed walls to front with rendered plinth to sill level, and rendered and painted elsewhere. Square-headed openings with raised render reveals and painted stone sills. Replacement uPVC windows and doors throughout. Set at end of avenue with single-storey random rubble stone outbuildings to rear and rendered boundary wall to front. Outbuilding attached to north end having pitched corrugated-iron roof.
Appraisal
The thatched house is a survival of the vernacular building tradition in Ireland, a phenomenon that is becoming increasingly rare. This attractive building retains many of the characteristics of this building mode, such as a thatched roof and low chimneystack. The various outbuildings are important for the the setting.