house — Glenties

The saved account records: Attached terraced four-bay single-storey former local authority house, built c. 1910, having canopy porch over main doorway.

The saved account records: Now in use as a private dwelling with single-storey extension to the rear (east).

The saved account records: Pitched natural purple slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, replacement rainwater goods, and with smooth rendered chimneystack (offset to the north side of centre) having cornice coping and clay ware pots over.

The saved account records: Canopy porch over entrance door supported on timber brackets having pitched purple slate roof, terracotta ridge tiles, and with battened timber panelling to gable apex.

house — Glenties matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: This simple but appealing house retains its original form and character. Its integrity is enhanced by the retention of its original window fittings and the natural slate roof. The form of this building and that of its neighbours suggests that it was originally built as social housing by the relevant local authority or, perhaps, by the Congested Districts Board (founded 1891). It dates to a period when a great many houses of this type were built in Ireland following the passing of the various Land and Labourers' Acts (c. 1883-1921) by the British Parliament in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries… This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.