house, BURGERY

Detached three-bay single-storey thatched cottage, c.1830. Extensively renovated and extended, c.1980, comprising single-bay single-storey lean-to return to north. Hipped roof with reed thatch having rope work to ridge, and rendered chimney stack. Shallow lean-to roof to return (materials not visible) with plastic rainwater goods on timber eaves. Unpainted replacement cement rendered walls (over random rubble stone or mud wall construction) with slight batter. Square-headed window openings with replacement concrete sills, c.1980, and replacement timber casement windows, c.1980. Square-headed door opening with tongue-and-groove timber panelled half-door. Set back from line of road in own grounds with unpainted rendered boundary wall having unpainted rendered piers with wrought iron gate.

A pleasant small-scale cottage that forms an important element of the vernacular heritage of County Waterford, as identified by the informal arrangement to the openings, the slight batter to the walls, and the thatched roof. However, extensive renovation works in the late twentieth century have eroded much of the historic character of the composition.