Description:
Four-bay single-storey direct-entry vernacular house, built in c. 1800, with projecting gabled porch to front (north) elevation. Pitched thatched roof with low rendered chimneystacks. Pitched corrugated-iron roof to porch. Painted roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with painted sills and having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows, and some aluminium windows. Square-headed replacement aluminium door to porch. Lower three-bay single-storey outbuilding attched to east, having pitched corrugated-iron roof, rendered walls and square-headed timber battened doors. Painted rendered boundary walls to front of house having square-plan piers to decorative wrought-iron pedestrian gate.
Brief Description of Project: The society pledged €5,000 for the replacement of the thatched roof using local materials and in the traditional style.
Grant Awarded:
2015: £5,000 from IGS London towards conservation plan and repair of thatched roof
NIAH Listing:
https://www.buildingsofireland...
References to IGS Bulletins and Journals:
'Irish Civic planting, c. 1740- c. 1890'
Author: Patrick Bowe
Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies Vol XI — 2008