house — Farm Lane

The saved account records: Attached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1880, having two-storey extension to the rear (south-west).

The saved account records: Pitched natural slate roof (small purple slates) having rendered chimneystacks to either gable end (south-east and north-west), and with cast-iron rainwater goods.

The saved account records: Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth course with raised rendered block-and-start quoins to the corner of the front elevation (north-east).

The saved account records: Square-headed window openings with smooth rendered reveals, plain smooth rendered surrounds, cut stone sills, and with three-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows.

house — Farm Lane matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: This well-proportioned house, probably dating the second half of the nineteenth century, retains early character and form. Its visual appeal and integrity is enhanced by the retention of timber sliding sash windows and the natural slate roof with attractive small-scale slates. The simple render detailing to the front elevation adds some interest to the otherwise plain front elevation. Buildings of this type were, until recent years, a ubiquitous feature of the streetscapes of small Irish towns and villages but it now increasingly rare to find examples in such original addition as this example in Killygordon.… This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.