House in Kiltycreevagh, County Longford

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Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1800, having windbreak to front elevation (north) and outbuilding extension attached to the east gable end (aligned with house). Pitched corrugated-metal roof with raised rendered verges to either gable end. Single rendered chimneystack, offset to west side of centre of roof, having rendered string course detailing. Battered smooth rendered walls over smooth render plinth course. Square-headed window openings having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows with painted stone sills. Windbreak porch having square-headed half-glazed timber panelled door. Square-headed doorway to outbuilding extension having battened timber door. Set slightly back from road to the north of Ballinamuck. Rendered boundary wall to road-frontage. Pair of rendered gate piers on square-plan to the east end of boundary wall having single leaf wrought-iron or mild steel gate. Second pair of gates piers located to the east end of the boundary wall.

This vernacular house retains much of its early character and structure. The roof is steeply pitched, which suggests the house may once have been thatched. It is now roofed with corrugated-metal, which widely replaced thatch as a vernacular roofing material in Ireland during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. The position of the chimneystack suggests that it has/had the lobby-entry plan that is characteristic of the vernacular architecture of the midlands. The house retains interesting features such as the timber sash windows, stone sills and the windbreak porch. The slightly battered walls suggest that this building may be of some antiquity. Prominently sited, the house makes a positive contribution to the rural landscape to the north of Ballinamuck, and represents an integral element of the vernacular architectural heritage of north County Longford.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 13400202

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