House in Donore, County Kildare

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Detached four-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched house, extant 1837, on a rectangular plan with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Renovated, ----. Hipped and pitched oat straw thatch roof, rope twist ridge with paired exposed stretchers having exposed scallops, rendered dwarf chimney stack having stringcourse below capping, and exposed stretchers to eaves having exposed scallops. Roughcast battered walls on rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC casement windows. Set back from line of road with hedge to perimeter.

A house identified as an integral component of the vernacular heritage of County Kildare by such attributes as the compact rectilinear lobby entry plan form; the construction in unrefined local materials displaying a feint battered silhouette with sections of ""daub"" or mud suggested by an entry in the ""House and Building Return"" Form of the National Census (NA 1901; NA 1911); the disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing; and the high pitched roof showing an oat straw thatch finish.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 11901310

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