house

Detached four-bay single-storey thatched cottage, c.1820, retaining early fenestration with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to front. Hipped roof with thatch. Rope work to ridges and to eaves. Rendered chimney stack. Flat-roof to porch. Bitumen felt. Iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls (possibly over rubble stone construction). Painted. Square-headed window openings. Stone sills. 1/1 timber sash windows. Replacement timber casement window, c.1980, to porch. Square-headed door opening. Replacement glazed timber panelled door, c.1980, to porch. Set back from road in own grounds. Roughcast boundary wall to front.

This cottage is an attractive long, low single-storey thatched cottage - a building type that was once ubiquitous in Kildare but which has now mostly vanished. The cottage, still occupied and in good condition, is of considerable social and historic significance, representing an important surviving component of the vernacular tradition in the county, as identified by the high-pitched thatched roof - it is also possibly of rubble stone or mud wall construction. The cottage retains many important original features and materials, including the thatch to the main roof and early timber sash fenestration. The cottage is attractively set in its own grounds just off the side of the road, slightly below the level of the road, and is a picturesque feature in the locality, especially on the Kilcullen-Athy road.