House in Carheens, County Galway (30404220)

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Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house with dormer attic, built c.1800, having flat-roofed porch to front and flat-roofed addition to rear. Pitched thatched roof with ingle low rendered chimneystack, rendered copings to gables. Whitewashed rendered battered walls with parallel raised quoins, similar decoration under eaves, and render plinth. Porch has segmental-headed outer opening and glazed timber door to house proper. Square-headed one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows and having applied render decoration for architraves. Rendered boundary walls with recent double-leaf metal gates to road.

This small farmhouse, which stands at the end of a lane, is a good example of a thatched house of the region. It is enhanced by its simply detailed thatched roof, render details to the façade, and by the retention of timber sash windows.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 30404220

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