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Detached four-bay single-storey direct entry thatched house with dormer attic, extant 1917, with single-bay single-storey lean-to outshot (north-east). In ruins, 2000. "Restored", 2005. For sale, 2012. Pitched Turkish reed thatch roof with exposed stretchers to decorative raised ridge having blind scallops, dwarf chimney stack having stringcourse below capping supporting terracotta pot, and concrete coping to gables. Limewashed battered walls with rough hewn limestone flush quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Square-headed opposing door openings with concealed dressings framing timber boarded doors. Interior including kitchen retaining hearth, timber boarded opposing door, and timber boarded vaulted ceiling. Set in unkempt grounds.

A house identified as an integral component of the early twentieth-century vernacular heritage of the rural outskirts of Kiltimagh by such traits as the rectilinear direct entry plan form featuring a characteristic outshot; the construction in unrefined local fieldstone displaying a feint battered silhouette; the disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing; and the high pitched roof latterly showing a non-indigenous Turkish reed thatch finish.