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Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1880, with windbreak porch to front. Pitched thatch roof with smooth rendered gable ended chimneystacks with coping. Smooth rendered walls and plinth course. Square-headed window openings with uPVC windows and painted sills. Square-headed door opening with timber half-door. Small outbuilding with pitched tin roof and smooth rendered walls to south. Located at the side of the road with rear to road, bounded by rendered wall to front and dry stone wall to east and west.

A well maintained thatched vernacular house which, despite refenestration, has retained its architectural form and character. It forms part of a group of vernacular structures including another thatched house (40900444) next door. Thatched buildings, although still relatively common in Inishowen, nationally are becoming increasingly rare. The rounded pitched roof, designed to minimise the impact of high winds, demonstrates a subtle adaptation of thatch roof construction, to accommodate local climatic conditions in exposed areas such as Inishowen.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 40900445

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Wanfried-Dublin, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Maker not stated on source page, en.wikipedia.org
National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Golfing in Ireland; photographer not stated, Source publisher
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Kenneth Allen, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Andreas F. Borchert, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Caroline McLaughlin / Donegal Live, Source publisher
Picture: Barrack Hill Town Park
Carroll Pierce, Wikimedia Commons
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