House in Killawardy, County Tipperary

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Detached four-bay two-storey vernacular house, built c.1800, with windbreak addition to front and flat-roof extension to south. Lobby-entry plan. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls. Two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to first floor and replacement to enlarged ground floor openings. Square-headed door opening with replacement door. Single-storey outbuildings to north and south, forming courtyard with house, having pitched slate and corrugated-iron roofs and roughcast rendered walls. Rendered walls with metal gates to road boundary.

This building is an interesting example of a vernacular farm house that retains its original form and structure. The house, together with the outbuildings form an interesting group of farm-related structures.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 22402906

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