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Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1800, with dormer attic, and having flat-roof twentieth-century extension to rear. Pitched thatched roof with decorative scolloping to ridge, wire mesh to eaves, and with low rendered chimneystack. Rendered and painted walls with rendered plinth to front and rendered quoins and eaves. Lime rendered to rear. Square-headed window openings with painted stone sills, two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows, and decorative render surrounds. Square-headed glazed timber entrance door. Set back from road with yard and single-storey outbuildings to rear, with random rubble boundary wall. Decorative cement balustrade and garden to front, having rendered piers with metal gates.

An increasingly rare sight, the thatched house is a physical reminder of the tradition of Irish vernacular building. This house retains the form and characteristics associated with vernacular architecture including thatched roof and low chimneystack. The decorative render details add visual interest to the façade. The outbuildings to the rear and the garden to the front enhance the setting.