house

Detached single-storey three-bay house/building, built c. 1925, having single-storey lean-to addition to the rear (north). Now out of use. Pitched corrugated-metal roof and smooth rendered chimneystack to the east gable end. Corrugated-metal clad walls to main body of building; smooth cement rendered walls to rear projection. Square-headed window openings with two-over-two pane timber horned sliding sash windows. Central square-headed doorway having timber sheeted door. Located adjacent to road junction in the rural countryside to the east/north-east of Gleann Cholm Cille/Glencolumbkille. Derelict three-bay single-storey house, c. 1930, adjacent to the west (not in survey). Cast-iron post box secured to timber pole adjacent to the east (see 40908105).

This modest small-scale corrugated-metal clad building is an interesting feature in the scenic but largely deserted rural landscape to the east/north-east of Gleann Cholm Cille/Glencolumbkille. Although now out of use, it retains its early form, character and much of its fabric. The design is modest and functional with no ornamentation or architectural pretensions. It is one of a number of corrugated-metal clad buildings in County Donegal, which, perhaps, has the largest surviving collection of buildings of this type of any Irish county. The use of corrugated-metal for almost its entire construction shows a willingness to experiment with new and more economic materials during the first half of the twentieth century. The form of this building and its location in the landscape suggests that it was not originally built as a house and may have been originally constructed as a garage or a shop etc. This building is a modest addition to the built heritage of the local area, adding variety to the roadscape close to the Atlantic fringe of Donegal.