house

Detached three-bay single-storey house with attic accommodation, built c. 1900, having recent single-bay single-storey lean-to extension to rear (north) elevation and single-bay single-storey lean-to shed attached to east gable. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystack. Rendered walls. Square-headed openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows having concrete sills. Square-headed opening with timber panelled half-glazed door. Rendered boundary walls with square-profile piers having wrought-iron pedestrian gate.

A well-built structure, it is characteristic of the great many labourers' houses that were built throughout Ireland following the passing of various Labourers' Acts and Land Acts by the British Parliament during the late nineteenth and the early twentieth-century. Symmetry and clarity of the vertical openings create a pleasing rhythm and the mass to void ratio enhances the simple geometric form. The retention of timber sliding sash windows and the appropriate half-glazed door add texture and depth to the façade.