Faherna Cottage, house in County Donegal

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Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular thatched house, built c. 1850, with windbreak porch to front, two-bay extension to west and four-bay outbuilding sited perpendicularly to extension. Now in use as a holiday home. Pitched thatch roof, smooth rendered gable ended chimneystacks with rendered coping. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered plinth course, eaves course and smooth rendered ruled-and-lined porch. Square-headed window openings with uPVC windows, smooth rendered reveals and painted sills. Square-headed door opening with matchboard timber door behind half-door. Outbuilding with whitewashed rubble stone walls, pitched thatch roof and square-headed door openings with matchboard timber doors.

A fine complex of thatched vernacular house and outbuildings, well adapted for modern use. Thatched buildings, although still relatively common in Inishowen, nationally are becoming increasingly rare. The rounded pitched roof, designed to minimise the impact of high winds, demonstrates a subtle adaptation of thatch roof construction, to accommodate local climatic conditions in exposed areas such as Inishowen. It is not shown on the Ordnance Survey first edition six-inch map of c. 1837. A man by the name of Crampsey bought the house in 1907 from the local landlord, Mr Young. Crampsey was a long-term tenant of the house at this time. It later passed into the ownership of the Lafferty family in 1937.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 40900410

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