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House in Carrownakib
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Detached four-bay single-storey with dormer attic vernacular house, built c.1800, having direct-entry plan. Late twentieth-century extension to rear with pitched thatched roof. Pitched thatched roof to house proper with flush ridge and rendered chimneystack, having stone copings to gables. Rendered and painted walls…

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Detached four-bay single-storey with dormer attic vernacular house, built c.1800, having direct-entry plan. Late twentieth-century extension to rear with pitched thatched roof. Pitched thatched roof to house proper with flush ridge and rendered chimneystack, having stone copings to gables. Rendered and painted walls to front, lined and ruled rendered to gables and rear elevation. Square-headed openings with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to front, replacement timber casement windows to rear, with painted stone sills. Square-headed timber battened entrance door. Single-storey lime render over random rubble thatched outbuilding to rear, set perpendicular to house. House set back from road behind rendered boundary wall, with garden to front and yard to rear.
An increasingly rare sight in the Irish rural landscape, this thatched house is a physical remainder of a fast vanishing tradition of Irish vernacular building. Although alterations have been carried out, it retains much of its original character and fabric, the timber sash windows, thatched roof and thatched outbuilding being of particular note, and contributes to the architectural heritage of the area.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 30405510

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