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House in Glengad
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Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1820, with windbreak porch to front, and corrugated tin roofed lean-to shed to north gable. Pitched thatch roof, smooth rendered gable ended chimneystacks with rendered coping. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered plinth course and porch.…

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Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1820, with windbreak porch to front, and corrugated tin roofed lean-to shed to north gable. Pitched thatch roof, smooth rendered gable ended chimneystacks with rendered coping. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered plinth course and porch. Square-headed window openings with two-over-two timber sash windows and painted sills. Square-headed door opening with replacement door. Set at the side of the road with single and two-storey outbuildings with whitewashed rubble stone walls, corrugated tin roofs, rendered gable coping and square-headed door openings with matchboard timber doors.
A good thatched vernacular house and outbuildings, forming part of an extended settlement. 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. House is marked on the Ordnance Survey first edition six-inch map of c. 1837.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 40900437

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