What is recorded here
Detached five-bay two-storey former farmhouse, built c.1900, with timber and glazed entrance porch to front elevation. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles and rendered chimneystack. Pebbledashed walls. Timber sash windows and concrete sills. Timber battened door to rear. Timber and glazed door to entrance porch. Single-storey outbuildings to rear yard with corrugated-iron roofs.
Though simple in design and modest in scale this example of a traditional farmhouse is popular throughout rural Ireland. The house is in a derelict condition now but retains some original features that contribute to the character of the farmhouse.
From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 14938002
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- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Didier Descouens, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Andreas F. Borchert, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Dieglop, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- D. Brands, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Colin Park, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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