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Detached five-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched house, extant 1837, on an L-shaped plan with single-bay single-storey projecting porch abutting single-bay single-storey projecting end bay. Hipped oat straw thatch roof on an L-shaped plan with hipped oat straw thatch roof (porch) abutting hipped oat straw thatch roof (end bay), rope twist ridge with paired exposed stretchers having exposed scallops, yellow brick Running bond dwarf chimney stacks having stepped capping, and exposed stretchers to eaves having exposed scallops. Roughcast battered walls on rendered plinth. Square-headed door opening with concealed dressings framing replacement timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Square-headed carriageway (south) with concealed dressings framing timber boarded door. Set back from line of road with rendered piers to perimeter having chamfered capping supporting flat iron gate.

A house identified as an important component of the vernacular heritage of County Kildare by such attributes as the angular lobby entry plan form; the construction in unrefined local materials displaying a feint battered silhouette with sections of "daub" or mud suggested by an entry in the "House and Building Return" Form of the National Census (NA 1901; NA 1911); the disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing; and the high pitched roof showing an oat straw thatch finish. Having been well maintained, the form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the timber boarded interior, thus upholding the character or integrity of the composition. Furthermore, adjacent "tin roofed" outbuildings (----) continue to contribute positively to the group and setting values of a self-contained ensemble making a picturesque visual statement in a rural street scene.