house — Carrowmenagh

The saved account records: Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1780, with modern extension to rear.

The saved account records: Rounded thatched roof with netting restraint and metal stays to eaves, and smooth rendered chimneystacks with stepped coping.

The saved account records: Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered plinth.

The saved account records: Detached four-bay single-storey outbuilding directly to north comprising of pitched corrugated-cement roof, roughcast rendered walls, square-headed window openings with timber-framed windows and ashlar sandstone sills.

house — Carrowmenagh matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: Although no longer inhabited, and despite the evident deterioration of the roof, this building retains a great deal of architectural integrity including its timber sash windows, and retains its intrinsic scale and form. Thatched buildings, although still relatively common in Inishowen, nationally are becoming increasingly rare, making their survival particularly significant. The rounded pitched roof is designed to minimise the impact of high winds, demonstrating the subtle adaptation of more common thatch detail to accommodate local climatic variations in exposed areas such as the Inishowen peninsula. The house… This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.