Survey Data
Reg No
40900443
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
House
Date
1860 - 1900
Coordinates
242606, 451007
Date Recorded
25/09/2008
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1880, with windbreak porch and outbuildings to both gables. Thatched pitched roof with smooth rendered gable ended chimneystacks. Square-headed window openings with two-over-two horned timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening with battened timber door. Outbuilding with corrugated-metal roof to gable. Large outbuilding with corrugated tin roof, rubble stone walls and square-headed door openings to south. Modern farm buildings to site.
Appraisal
A thatched vernacular house retaining its character and architectural integrity, although now disused. Thatched buildings, although still relatively common in Inishowen, nationally are 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. Buildings are shown on the site on the Ordnance Survey first edition six-inch map of c. 1837, but this house appears to be later in date.