House in Glenduff

Detached three-bay single-storey direct-entry vernacular house, built c. 1800, having windbreak to front and lofted single-storey addition to rear. Half-hipped thatched roof with rendered chimneystack. Painted roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings with render surrounds, one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows and render sills. Painted rendered windbreak has flat concrete roof with chamfered render cornice and half-glazed timber panelled door with sidelight. Two-bay single-storey outbuilding to east having pitched corrugated-iron roof, painted rendered walls, and square-headed timber panelled doors. Four-bay single-storey outbuilding to east having two-bay single-storey thatched extension to south, pitched corrugated-iron roof, painted rendered walls, and square-headed openings, some having timber casement windows, some fixed timber fittings, and timber battened and recent doors. Painted rendered square-profile piers with wrought-iron gate, set to rubble sandstone boundary walls.

The simple design of this thatched house is embellished by the projecting windbreak, which provides the building with a central focus, the window arrangement reflecting the plan of the interior. The various types of metal gate to the narrow front garden enhance the setting.