House in Knockalohert, County Cork (20901621)

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Detached four-bay single-storey lobby-entry vernacular house, built c. 1810, with two-bay single-storey addition to rear, and gabled porch to front elevation. Hipped roof, thatched to front and corrugated-iron to rear, with rendered rubble limestone chimneystack. Painted roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window and door openings having replacement uPVC fittings. Recent corrugated-iron built open-sided barn to north. Three-bay single-storey outbuilding to west with pitched corrugated-iron roof, corrugated-iron walls and square-headed corrugated-iron and timber battened doors. Wrought-iron pedestrian gate to west of house, and painted rendered piers to south.

This lobby entry house exhibits characteristics typical of the vernacular lobby entry, including pitched thatched roof, shallow porch, square-headed windows and rendered chimneystack. The building has numerous associated farm buildings and is located at the end of a narrow lane leading from a small regional road.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 20901621

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