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Detached four-bay single-storey thatched cottage, c.1825, with lean-to entrance windbreak, and single-bay single-storey outbuilding end bay to right. Reroofed, post-1994. Hipped and pitched roof (overhanging lean-to slate roof to windbreak having cast-iron rainwater goods) with replacement water reed thatch, post-1994, having rope work to ridge, and red brick Running bond chimney stack. Painted lime rendered walls over random rubble stone construction with rendered, ruled and lined walls to windbreak. Square-headed window openings with painted cut-stone sills, and three-over-three timber sash windows having iron bars. Square-headed door opening with timber door. Square-headed door opening to outbuilding end bay with timber lintel, and timber boarded door. Set in own grounds perpendicular to road with stone cobbled courtyard having unpainted rendered piers, and iron double gates. (ii) Attached two-bay single-storey outbuilding, post-1903, with square-headed carriageway to left. Pitched roof with painted corrugated-iron, iron ridge, rendered coping, and no rainwater goods. Unpainted rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with no sills, timber lintels, and timber fittings. Square-headed carriageway to left with timber lintel, and painted corrugated-iron doors. (iii) Detached two-bay single-storey outbuilding, c.1825. Reroofed, c.1950. Pitched roof with replacement corrugated-asbestos, c.1950, concrete ridge, rendered coping, and no rainwater goods. Painted random rubble stone walls. Square-headed door openings with timber lintels, and timber doors.

A modest-scale cottage representing an element of the early nineteenth-century vernacular legacy of County Kilkenny as identified by attributes including the construction in locally-sourced materials, the informal arrangement of the openings, the windbreak, the incorporation of an integral outbuilding range, the thatched roof, and so on. Having been well maintained the cottage presents an early aspect with the essential composition attributes surviving in place together with substantial quantities of the historic fabric. A collection of outbuilding ranges contributes positively to the group and setting values of a site forming part of a larger settlement or clachán (including 12404528 - 9, 31 - 3/KK-45-28 - 9, 31 - 3) enhancing the visual appeal of Luffany.