house — TEMPLEMOYLE

The saved account records: Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular thatched house, built c. 1800, with windbreak porch and bed outshot to rear.

The saved account records: Pitched thatched roof with smooth rendered gable ended chimneystacks with rendered coping and smooth rendered gable coping.

The saved account records: Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered porch, eaves and plinth course.

The saved account records: Several single-storey and two-storey outbuildings to front of house with pitched and lean-to corrugated tin roofs, whitewashed rubble stone walls and square door openings.

house — TEMPLEMOYLE matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: This vernacular thatched house still retains a sound external structure and good thatch and its characteristic bed outshot. It is typical of the small dwellings that were once common throughout the country. The rounded pitched roof, designed to minimise the impact of high winds, demonstrates a subtle adaptation of thatch roof construction, to accommodate local climatic conditions in exposed areas such as Inishowen. It is shown on the Ordnance Survey first edition six-inch map of c. 1837. This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.