House in Clonmany Glebe, County Donegal

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Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1860, with windbreak porch to front, bed outshot to rear and single-bay byre to south-east gable. Pitched corrugated-metal roof, painted render to chimneystacks to gable ends and centre right, replacement rainwater goods; concrete gable coping to byre. Painted roughcast render to rubble stone walls over painted smooth rendered plinth. Square headed window openings over painted cut stone sills, with timber six-over-six horned sash windows. Square headed door opening to porch, with timber panelled door. Set in own grounds off road with yard to front bound by a rubble stone wall, with two-bay single-storey outbuilding to north-west, flat-roof and limewashed rubble stone walls.

An attractive vernacular house that was originally thatched, retaining characteristic details of the type such as its bed outshot and windbreak porch. The retention of its timber sashes add to its significance.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 40901027

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