house — ARDMALIN

The saved account records: Detached five-bay single-storey thatched house, built c. 1860, with windbreak porch and modern single-bay thatched extension to rear.

The saved account records: Round pitched flax roof with latticed restraining wire and timber pegs, iron pegs to extension, limewashed rendered chimneystacks.

The saved account records: Square-headed window openings over painted cut stone sills with timber four-over-four horned sash windows.

The saved account records: Detached two-bay two-storey outbuilding to north-east, external steps to first floor south-west gable, pitched artificial slate roof, concrete gable copings, replacement rainwater goods, remnant limewashed render to rubble stone walls.

house — ARDMALIN matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: A good example of this type of vernacular thatched dwelling in good condition and incorporating a modern thatched extension to the rear. Retains features of interest including thatch with latticed restraint, sash windows and a windbreak porch together with an outbuilding incorporating external steps to the first floor that are features of vernacular architecture in this region. 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. An increasingly rare type… This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.