Survey Data
Reg No
40901226
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1780 - 1820
Coordinates
258016, 445011
Date Recorded
25/09/2008
Date Updated
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Description
Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1800, with bed outshot and modern single-storey extension to rear. Rounded thatched roof with netting restraint, smooth rendered chimneystacks with stepped coping to gables, and smooth rendered eaves course. flat-roof to rear extension. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings with rendered patent surrounds and uPVC windows and painted concrete sills. Square-headed door opening with rendered patent surround and replacement door. Attached single-storey outbuilding to east comprising of smooth rendered random rubble walls. Attached outbuilding to east comprising of mono-pitch corrugated metal roof and smooth rendered walls. Fronts directly onto road with concrete yard surrounding.
Appraisal
Despite loss of original fenestration, this is a well preserved thatched vernacular house with a characteristic bed outshot. A good example of a type that was once prevalent throughout the country but now becoming increasingly rare. 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. The house is marked on the Ordnance Survey first edition six-inch map of c. 1837 forming part of a small unnamed settlement.