house

Detached five-bay single-storey cottage, c.1770, probably originally thatched retaining early fenestration. Reroofed, c.1950. Gable-ended roof. Replacement corrugated-iron, c.1950. Iron ridge tiles. Red brick chimney stacks. Rendered coping to gables. Iron rainwater goods. Roughcast walls (probably over rubble stone or mud-walled construction). Painted. Square-headed openings. Stone sills. 2/2 timber sash windows. Replacement glazed timber panelled door, c.1980. Set back from road in own grounds. Concrete forecourt to front. Gateway to south-east comprising pair of roughcast piers with wrought ion gates.

This cottage is an attractive long, low single-storey range that was probably original thatched - a building type that was once ubiquitous in Kildare but which have now mostly vanished. The cottage, still occupied and in good condition, is of considerable vernacular importance as identified by the high-pitched roof with corrugated-iron covering – its is also possibly of mud-walled construction. The cottage retains many important early features and materials, including timber sash fenestration. The cottage is attractively set in its own grounds that include a range of attendant outbuildings, which serve to represent an almost intact small-scale late eighteenth-century vernacular farm holding. The gateway to south-east is also of interest and is a good example of early surviving iron work.