Brookside Cottage — TOGAN

The saved account records: Detached four-bay two-storey vernacular house, built c.1850, with gabled porch to front elevation, and single-storey ancillary farm buildings to south and rear (west).

The saved account records: Pitched natural slate roof, with cast-iron rainwater goods, having two centrally-placed polychrome red and yellow brick chimneystacks.

The saved account records: Roughcast rendered walls, having smooth-rendered quoins.

The saved account records: Single-storey outbuildings to south and west, and two-storey outbuilding to west, some with pitched replacement slate roofs, some with pitched and lean-to corrugated-iron roofs, with cast-iron rainwater goods, some roughcast rendered and some coursed rubble stone walls, square-headed openings, some with visible red brick surrounds, having timber battened doors and timber fixed and sliding sash windows.

Brookside Cottage — TOGAN matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: This vernacular house retains its essential form and fabric, and its setting is enhanced by the survival of mid-nineteenth-century farm buildings. The porch is characteristic of Irish rural houses, and the timber sash windows contribute to its authentic mid-nineteenth-century character. The polychrome chimneystacks are typical of County Monaghan, whilst other local materials have been used in the construction of the buildings and boundary walls. The structures are a picturesque addition to this country road, and are bounded by a stream to the south. This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.