Ray Cottage — DRUMHERRIVE

The saved account records: Detached three-bay single-storey vernacular house with attic, built c.1820, with windbreak entrance, lower single-storey addition to northwest and single-storey outbuilding to southeast.

The saved account records: Pitched straw thatched roof to original house and additional bay, with rendered copings, low rendered chimneystacks, and flat rendered coping to windbreak.

The saved account records: Pitched corrugated-iron roof to outbuilding.

The saved account records: Square-headed openings with painted concrete sills and replacement timber casement windows and replacement timber battened door.

Ray Cottage — DRUMHERRIVE matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: This thatched house retains much of its essential character, despite widened window openings. It is marked on the Ordnance Survey of 1842. It displays various vernacular characteristics, including irregularly placed openings, low chimneystacks, rendered rubble walls and a windbreak entrance. The straw thatched roof is of particular interest. The lower additional bay and the outbuilding are also typical of the county. The approach lane, over a small bridge known as Walkers Bridge, is pleasant. This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.