House in Clonca, County Donegal

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Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1860, with windbreak porch to front and modern extension to rear. Rounded straw thatched roof with roughcast rendered chimneystacks to gables. Flat concrete roof to porch. Smooth rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with two-over-one horned timber sash windows and painted concrete sills. Square-headed door opening with replacement timber panelled door. Single-storey outbuildings to north and south gables, comprising of pitched corrugated-metal roofs and smooth rendered walls. Set within own grounds, set back from road.

An attractive thatched vernacular house, a good example of its type, which through the retention of integral form and features including timber sash windows retains considerable character and charm. 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. It is not marked on the Ordnance Survey first edition six-inch map of c. 1837. An attractive but sadly threatened element of Donegal’s architectural heritage.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 40901210

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