
What is recorded here
Detached four-bay single-storey direct entry thatched house, extant 1937, on a rectangular plan with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch. Renovated, ----, to accommodate alternative use. Hipped (south) and pitched (north) oat straw thatch roof, rope twist ridge with paired exposed hazel stretchers having exposed scallops, rendered chimney stacks having capping supporting terracotta pots, and remains of exposed stretchers to eaves having exposed steel scallops. Roughcast battered walls; rendered concrete block crow stepped wall (north) with rendered frame. Square-headed door opening with concealed dressings framing timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement timber casement windows. Road fronted on a corner site.
A house identified as an important component of the vernacular heritage of County Kildare by such attributes as the rectilinear direct entry plan form; the construction in unrefined local fieldstone displaying a battered silhouette; the disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing; and the high pitched roof showing a degraded oat straw thatch finish.
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