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Detached four-bay single-storey direct entry thatched house, extant 1838, with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed open windbreak. Renovated, 2000. Pitched roof with replacement reed or straw thatch, chicken wire-covered remains of exposed hazel lattice stretchers to chevron- or saw tooth-detailed raised ridge having exposed scallops, cement rendered dwarf chimney stack having stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and concrete or rendered coping to gables. Cement rendered battered walls on rendered chamfered plinth with rusticated rendered piers to corners supporting rendered band to eaves. Square-headed window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC casement windows, 2000, replacing one-over-one timber sash windows. Square-headed opposing door openings with concealed dressings framing replacement timber panelled doors. Interior including kitchen retaining hearth with rusticated surround, carved timber surrounds to opposing door openings framing timber boarded doors, and timber boarded vaulted ceiling. Set back from road in landscaped grounds with limewashed piers to perimeter having gabled capping supporting looped wrought iron gate.

A house identified as an integral component of the vernacular heritage of south County Mayo by such traits as the rectilinear direct entry plan form; the construction in unrefined local fieldstone displaying a feint battered silhouette; the disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing; and the high pitched roof showing a thatch finish.