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Detached three-bay two-storey rendered house, built c. 1840. Single-storey gable-fronted central entrance porch on west (front) elevation. Currently vacant. Pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, one brick chimneystack, one smooth-rendered, half-round cast-iron gutters on eaves corbel course. Unpainted roughcast walling. Square-headed window openings, smooth-rendered reveals, limestone sills, painted six-over-six timber sash windows. Square-headed door openings to entrance porch and east elevation, timber frames set on dressed limestone plinth blocks, painted vertically-sheeted timber doors. Four-bay single-storey rendered outbuilding to south-east, pitched slate roof, painted two-over-two timber sash windows. Single-storey rubble stone outbuilding to east, pitched corrugated-iron sheeted roof. Concrete paved yard, cut limestone water trough to yard. House set back from road, surrounded by mature farmland, squared limestone boundary walls and gate piers.

This house retains a large amount of original and early fabric. A fine example of the rural farmhouse type, its relatively plain façade and balanced proportions are typical of architectural development in the nineteenth century and of the Irish vernacular tradition. Simple outbuildings and stone gate piers help preserve the original site context. The slate roof and unpainted walls contribute to the building's conformity with its rural surroundings.