house

Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1860, with projecting flat-roofed single-bay entrance porch to front (east). Single-bay single-storey outbuildings/sheds attached to either end (north and south). Now out of use. Pitched natural slate roof with central rendered chimneystack and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings with cut stone sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed entrance to north face of projecting porch with glazed timber door. Square-headed entrances to adjoining sheds. Concrete decoration to parapet over entrance porch. Square-headed entrances attached sheds. Set back at a right angle from the road in own grounds. Site enclosed by rendered wall and rendered gate piers to road edge (north).

A modest mid-to-late nineteenth-century house/farmhouse, which retains its early form and character. This appealing traditional structure is enhanced by the retention of all its early fabric, including sash windows and a natural slate roof. The form and layout of this unassuming house is typical of the many modest-sized, almost vernacular, houses/farmhouses that were built in great numbers throughout Ireland in the first few decades following The Great Famine. Very few of these now survive in their original form today making this example a particularly important survival. The outbuildings add to the setting and complete this composition.