Farm house in Carrickartagh, County Monaghan

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Detached five-bay single-storey farmhouse, built c.1800, having flat-roofed windbreak entrance to front (south-east) elevation. Road end bay is outbuilding, with loft above. Pitched corrugated-iron roof with concrete copings, and yellow and red brick chimneystacks. Whitewashed rendered and rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and painted sills. Square-headed door opening. House forms north-west range of yard, with two-storey outbuilding to south-west, having concrete block external staircase to south-east gable, and single-storey outbuilding to north-east. Pitched corrugated-iron roofs, whitewashed rubble stone walls, square-headed openings with timber battened fittings. Carriage arch to north-west gable of south-west range, having red brick voussoirs. Rubble stone boundary wall with rubble stone piers, both with render capping, to south-east boundary. South-west gable of house and south-west elevation of two-storey outbuilding stand on roadside having timber battened double-leaf gate.

This farmhouse and outbuildings are typical of traditional farmstead arrangements and of Ireland's vernacular tradition, with simple forms, small openings, local materials, and a house oriented to follow the path of the sun, respond to the local landscape, and create a sheltered yard with the other buildings, rather than addressing the road. It retains much early fabric and character, including timber sash windows and whitewashed walls.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 41402728

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