House in Freeduff, County Cavan

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Detached three-bay two-storey former house, built c.1810, with off-centre gable-fronted porch. Now in agricultural use. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles and concrete barge coping, rafter ends exposed to rear. Smooth-rendered chimneystacks to gables, with steel and uPVC rainwater goods. Smooth-rendered walls to front elevation with raised bands to corners, ruled-and-lined to porch on stone plinth, roughcast rendered walls elsewhere. Window openings having patent reveals and stone sills, with two-over-two and one-over-one timber sliding sash windows having convex horns and original glass. Square-headed timber battened door to side of porch. L-plan outbuildings with pitched corrugated-iron roofs to north enclosed by rendered boundary wall with moulded concrete coping and capstone to piers. Approached by laneway with remnant of rubble boundary wall and piers with decorative render detailing.

A two-storey vernacular farmhouse of formal appearance but following the direct-entry plan type with off-centre door position and originally with blank ground floor rear walls. It retains a strongly vernacular character emphasised particularly by the thickness of the walls and its position entered directly from the farmyard. The complex contributes to the understanding of the county's vernacular tradition.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 40403712

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