House in Castlejohn

Four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1820, with gable-fronted windbreak with slightly-lower outbuilding attached to south-west end. House is lobby-entry plan. Pitched slate roof with eaves course, red brick chimneystack, terracotta ridge tiles and having rooflights. Scalloped timber bargeboards to windbreak. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered plinth to front, smooth rendered to north gable and limewash to rear wall. Square-headed window openings with one-over-one pane and two-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows to front, with painted sills. Casement windows to north gable and casement and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to rear wall. Square-headed door opening with timber battened door. Three-bay single-storey outbuilding opposite house, with pitched slate roofs, smooth rendered walls and timber battened fittings to square-headed doorways and window. Metal gates set to rendered piers to front of site.

This farm house is an excellent example of domestic rural vernacular architecture. Modest in scale and form, it exhibits the simple and functional form of traditional building in Ireland. The associated outbuildings make this an interesting group of farm buildings.