house — CLONCA

The saved account records: Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1860, with windbreak porch to front and modern extension to rear.

The saved account records: Rounded straw thatched roof with roughcast rendered chimneystacks to gables.

The saved account records: Square-headed window openings with two-over-one horned timber sash windows and painted concrete sills.

The saved account records: Single-storey outbuildings to north and south gables, comprising of pitched corrugated-metal roofs and smooth rendered walls.

house — CLONCA matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: 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. This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.