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House in Carrowmore
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Detached five-bay single-storey thatched house, built c. 1800, with windbreak porch to front and bed outshot to rear. Pitched rounded thatched roof with smooth rendered chimneystacks to gables with coping and terracotta pots, and smooth rendered eaves course. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered plinth course…

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Detached five-bay single-storey thatched house, built c. 1800, with windbreak porch to front and bed outshot to rear. Pitched rounded thatched roof with smooth rendered chimneystacks to gables with coping and terracotta pots, and smooth rendered eaves course. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered plinth course and margin. Square-headed window openings with patent rendered surrounds and three-over-three pane horned timber sliding sash windows with painted stone sills. Square-headed door opening with replacement half-glazed door. Fronts directly onto roadside with cobbled area to front. Single-storey outbuildings to north and south with pitched corrugated-metal and slate roofs and roughcast rendered walls.
A particularly fine thatched vernacular house with its characteristic bed outshot. A good example of a type that was once prevalent throughout the country, but is now becoming increasingly rare. The quality timber sash windows, whose design is very much typical to the Carndonagh area, adds a local craftsmanship interest to the building. The rounded pitched roof is designed to minimise the impact of high winds, a subtle adaptation of more common thatch detail to accommodate local climatic conditions in exposed areas such as the Inishowen peninsula. The house is marked on the Ordnance Survey first edition six-inch map of c. 1837.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 40902002

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  • Maker not stated on source page, martin-tychtl-gygc.squarespace.com
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Richard Webb, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Colin Park, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Picture: Barrack Hill Town Park
  • Picture: Simpson's Bar & Restaurant
  • Andreas F. Borchert, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Diamond Café visitor photograph on Tripadvisor, Tripadvisor
  • Maker not stated on source page, en.wikipedia.org
  • Caroline McLaughlin / Donegal Live, Source publisher
  • Richard Webb, Wikimedia Commons
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