Angela's Cottage, house in County Limerick

What is recorded here

Angela's Cottage in Callow has a thatched roof that steps up and down like a family being arranged for a photograph. One end has plainly refused to stand on the box.

Detached four-bay single-storey thatched house, built c. 1790, having slightly projecting end-bay to front (east) elevation and two-bay single-storey extension to rear (west) elevation. Hipped and pitched thatched roof with red brick chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed openings with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows and painted stone sills. Square-headed opening having timber battened door. Pair of round profile roughcast rendered piers to north with stepped cats and double-leaf cast-iron gates.

This house is an excellent example of the Irish vernacular building tradition. Although extended to the rear and modernized, the original form of the house is still evident, while the stepped roofline has a particularly pleasing effect.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 21902022

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