
Overview
house — DUNDUFFSFORT is recorded as house in Donegal. Semi-detached pair of two-bay two-storey houses, built c. 1910, on a rectangular plan with shared porch with hipped roof to front and later single-storey single-pitched extensions to rear. Pitched slate roof with timber fascia and soffit to front and exposed rafter ends to west, grey clayware ridge tiles and smooth rendered chimneystacks to gables with yellow clay pots, replacement rainwater goods.
Why it was built
The saved account records: Semi-detached pair of two-bay two-storey houses, built c. 1910, on a rectangular plan with shared porch with hipped roof to front and later single-storey single-pitched extensions to rear.
People and work
The saved account records: Pitched slate roof with timber fascia and soffit to front and exposed rafter ends to west, grey clayware ridge tiles and smooth rendered chimneystacks to gables with yellow clay pots, replacement rainwater goods.
How it changed
The saved account records: Painted roughcast rendered walls, except for a smooth rendered finish to the southern gable.
What survives
The saved account records: Square-headed window openings with smooth rendered reveals and painted sills containing six-over-three horned timber sash windows to first floor and with bipartite multi-pane horned timber sash windows to either side of porch.
Why it mattered
house — DUNDUFFSFORT matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: A good example of local authority rural housing, forming a pair of houses of good functional design. The bipartite windows are a notable feature. Original features such as the sash windows, slate roof and gate piers have been retained preserving much of the character of the structures. These houses are a significant part of the early twentieth-century architectural heritage of the region. This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.
History checked 15 August 2026 against the named sources below.
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