House in Clonfad, County Monaghan

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Detached four-bay single-storey labourer’s cottage with attic storey, built c.1920, presenting two storeys to rear. Now vacant. Pitched slate roof with red brick chimneystack, cast-iron rainwater goods, exposed roof-timbers to eaves, and timber bargeboards to gables. Harl-rendered walls having render plinth course and red brick block-and-start quoins. Square-headed window openings with render surrounds, masonry sills and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows, and two-pane timber casement window to front (north) elevation, two-over-two pane timber sliding sash window to attic storey to rear elevation. Square-headed door opening to front, having raised render reveal and timber battened door, opening onto stone step.

This modest but well-executed house is typical of those built under the Labourers' Acts from 1883 to 1919, to provide quality accommodation for rural workers and to replace the substandard one-room cabins which were then characteristic of working-class housing. Displaying a high standard of construction, it retains much of its original form and fabric, including timber sliding sash windows and red brick quoins, which provide architectural interest.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 41402101

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