Survey Data
Reg No
40901208
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1780 - 1820
Coordinates
253808, 447396
Date Recorded
23/09/2008
Date Updated
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Description
Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1800, with modern single-bay single-storey extension to rear. Rounded pitched thatched roof with netting restraint and timber and metal rope stays to eaves, smooth rendered chimneystacks to gables with stepped coping. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings with one-over-one horned timber sash windows and painted stone sills. Timber casements windows to rear. Square-headed door opening with half-glazed timber panelled door. Set within own grounds with remains of outbuildings to site. Entered by hedgerow-lined dirt-track driveway from north-west.
Appraisal
A thatched vernacular house retaining a great deal of character through the survival of original features including sash windows. The rounded pitched roof is designed to minimise the impact of high winds, a subtle adaptation of more common thatch detail to accommodate local climatic conditions in exposed areas such as Inishowen. It marked on the Ordnance Survey first edition six-inch map of c. 1837. An attractive but sadly threatened element of Donegal’s architectural heritage.