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Detached five-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1800, with single-bay single-storey entrance porch to front, extensions to both gables and single-bay single-storey flat-roofed extension to rear. Rounded pitched thatched roof with netting restraint and metal rope stays to eaves, smooth rendered chimneystacks with stepped coping and terracotta pots. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth render to porch, rear elevation and extension. Square-headed window openings with rendered patent surrounds and timber casement windows. Square-headed door opening with replacement battened timber stable-door. Three-bay single-storey extension to south-west comprising of pitched corrugated-metal roof and whitewashed rubble walls. Modern three-bay single-storey extension to north-east comprising of pitched artificial slate roof and smooth rendered walls. Set within own grounds.

An attractive thatched vernacular house, built on a characteristic linear plan and surviving in fine condition. Despite alterations and extensions it has retained its vernacular character and a good roof. Thatched buildings, although still relatively common in Inishowen, nationally are becoming increasingly rare making their survival a matter of importance. The rounded pitched roof is designed to minimise the impact of high winds, demonstrating the subtle adaptation of more common thatch detail to accommodate local climatic variations in exposed areas such as the Inishowen peninsula. House is marked on the Ordnance Survey first edition six-inch map of c. 1837.