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House in Coolnahane

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House in Coolnahane
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Detached five-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1800. half-hipped corrugated-iron roof with rendered chimneystack. Rendered walls. Square-headed one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, having decorative external timber shutters. Windbreak to entrance with rounded roof and having lined-and-ruled…

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Detached five-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1800. half-hipped corrugated-iron roof with rendered chimneystack. Rendered walls. Square-headed one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, having decorative external timber shutters. Windbreak to entrance with rounded roof and having lined-and-ruled rendered walls, and timber panelled door with overlight. Garden to front of house with hedge and rendered boundary wall. Rendered square-profile piers to garden gate and to vehicular gate, with panel detailing, having decorative wrought-iron gate to garden and double-leaf steel gate to yard. Ranges of multiple-bay single-storey outbuildings to east and west sides of house and extending to road edge, having stepped-profile pitched corrugated-iron roofs and rendered walls. Haybarns to rear of house, having steel stanchion supports and rounded corrugated-iron roofs.
This is a good example of a vernacular farmhouse and its yard of outbuildings. Its roadside setting makes this a notable feature of the Mallow to Killarney road. The setting is enhanced by the retention of the front garden and its boundaries. The hosue retains typical modest vernacular features such as the small timber sash windows, the windbreak and the corrugated-iron roofing. The group is one of the more intact of its kind in North Cork and represents an increasingly rare survival of a vernacular farmyard.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 20903123

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Sitomon, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Jonathan Thacker, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • The Speckled Bird, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • kevin higgins, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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