House in Walshtown Beg, County Cork (20906503)

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Detached four-bay single-storey thatched house, built c. 1800. Now disused. Hipped thatched roof with pitched slate roof to north bays. Rendered chimneystack with red brick coping. Rendered walls. Square-headed openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows, some with bars. Square-headed opening with timber panelled half-glazed door. Three-bay single-storey outbuilding to rear with single-pitched corrugated-iron roof, rendered walls and square-headed openings with timber fittings. Multiple-bay single-storey outbuildings to rear (west) having pitched slate and corrugated-iron roofs, rubble stone walls and square-headed openings. Rendered rubble stone boundary wall with square-profile piers and wrought-iron pedestrian gate to site. Rendered square-profile piers and wrought-iron double-leaf gates to yard entrance.

Long low elevation and small openings typical of vernacular tradition. Few remaining structures of once substantial settlement. Although now unoccupied, well maintained.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 20906503

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