outbuilding

Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular outbuilding, built c. 1800, in use as music, dance and story-telling venue. Rounded pitched thatched roof with netting restraint with timber rope stays to eaves, and smooth rendered chimneystack with terracotta pot to north gable. Rendered random rubble walls to front with random rubble walls to rear and gables. Square-headed window opening with stone lintel and two-over-two horned timber sash window. Square-headed door openings with stone lintels and battened timber doors. Set within own grounds with thatched dwelling adjoining.

An attractive thatched outbuilding which retains it character and form well, for which a modern use has been found. The rounded pitched roof, designed to minimise the impact of high winds, demonstrates a subtle adaptation of more common thatch roof detail, to accommodate local climatic conditions in exposed areas such as Inishowen. It forms part of a vernacular complex, shown on the Ordnance Survey first edition six-inch map of c. 1837, with the adjoining thatched house (see 40902118).