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Milestone Cottage

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Detached five-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1860, having lower lean-to porch addition to rear, and lower single-bay single-storey outbuilding attached to northwest gable. Pitched scolloped reed-thatched roof of c.2005, having raised ridge with decorative scolloping, rendered chimneystacks with lead flashing, and asbestos-cement slate roof to porch. Smooth-rendered walls. Square-headed openings with concrete sills and replacement timber casement windows and half-door. Pitched corrugated-iron roof with exposed rafter ends to outbuilding. Small garden to front, with low picket fence to road, and garden to rear.
An attractive vernacular house that retains much original character and features. The thatched roof, small irregular openings and rendered rubble stone walls are all characteristic of this building tradition, although roped thatch would be more typical of the district. Attaching an outbuilding in line with the house is typical of County Donegal.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 40904524

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Heikki.vesanto, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Malene Thyssen, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Kenneth Allen, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Chris Gunns, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Patrice78500, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Somerville, Boyle T. (Henry Boyle Townshend), 1863-1936, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
  • Oliver Dixon, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0

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