House in Gortnabrade, County Donegal

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What is recorded here

Detached three-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1820, having windbreak entrance. Pitched straw thatched roof with raised ridge, rendered copings and rendered chimneystacks to gables, and with flat rendered roof to windbreak. Smooth rendered walls. Square-headed openings with painted concrete sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows, and timber panelled door. Dwelling under construction to north.

A well-maintained vernacular house that retains its thatched roof. It has the small window openings and a windbreak entrance characteristic of many vernacular houses in Ireland.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 40902730

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