Survey Data
Reg No
40901246
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
House
Date
1770 - 1800
Coordinates
259145, 446194
Date Recorded
25/09/2008
Date Updated
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Description
Attached five-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1780. Rounded thatched roof with netting restraint and metal rope stays to eaves, and concrete block chimneystacks with stepped coping. Roughcast rendered walls, random rubble walls to rear. Square-headed window openings with two-over-two horned timber sash windows. Square-headed door openings to front and rear with stone lintels and battened timber doors. Attached single-bay single-storey outbuilding to south comprising of pitched corrugated-metal roof and random rubble walls. Detached single-storey farmyard outbuildings to rear and south. Fronts directly onto west side of street.
Appraisal
Although no longer inhabited, and despite the evident deterioration of the roof, this building retains a great deal of architectural integrity including timber sash windows and battened timber doors, and retains its intrinsic scale and form. Thatched buildings, although still relatively common in Inishowen, nationally are becoming increasingly rare, making their survival particularly significant. The rounded pitched roof is designed to minimise the impact of high winds, demonstrating the subtle adaptation of more common thatch detail to accommodate local climatic variations in exposed areas such as the Inishowen peninsula. The house is part of an important group of vernacular structures (40901247 - 40901250). It is marked on the Ordnance Survey first edition six-inch map of c. 1837, forming part of a named extensive vernacular clachan settlement.