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Detached four-bay single-storey thatched cottage, c.1820. Renovated and refenestrated, c.1970. Now disused. Hipped roof with reed thatch, and red brick Running bond chimney stack. Painted replacement cement rendered walls, c.1970. Square-headed window openings with replacement concrete sills, c.1970, and replacement timber casement windows, c.1970. Square-headed door opening with tongue-and-groove timber panelled door. Set back from road in own grounds with part overgrown grounds to site. (ii) Detached three-bay two-storey rubble stone outbuilding, c.1820, to north with three-bay single-storey wing to right (north). Extensively renovated, c.1995, to accommodate residential use. Undergoing renovation, 2003, with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch under construction. Pitched slate roofs (gabled to porch) with clay ridge tiles, rendered coping, timber eaves to porch, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods, c.1995. Random rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings remodelled, c.1995, with no sills, replacement red brick ‘voussoirs’, c.1995, and replacement timber casement windows, c.1995. Square-headed window openings to porch with no sills, timber lintels, and timber fittings. Square-headed door opening to porch with no fittings.

An appealing, modest-scale cottage forming an important element of the vernacular heritage of County Waterford, as identified by features including the thatched roof. However, extensive renovation works in the late twentieth century, together with the fact that it is now disused and in poor condition, have not had a positive impact on the external expression of the composition. An attendant outbuilding has been successfully converted to an alternative use without adversely affecting the historic character of the composition, and contributes to the visual appeal of the group.