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Detached four-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched house with dormer attic, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan off-centred on single-bay single-storey lean-to windbreak. Undergoing repair, 1987. Refenestrated, 1992. Reroofed, -----. Replacement hipped oat thatch roof overhanging lean-to roofs to window openings to dormer attic with chicken wire-covered rope twist above paired exposed stretchers to ridge having exposed steel or wire scallops, red brick Running bond off-central dwarf chimney stack having stepped capping, and exposed stretchers to eaves having exposed steel or wire scallops. Limewashed rendered battered walls with limewashed rendered battered buttress to front (east) elevation. Square-headed off-central door opening with concealed dressings including timber lintel framing glazed timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled half-door. Square-headed window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings including timber lintels framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Road fronted.

A house identified as an integral component of the vernacular heritage of Ballyedmond by such attributes as the rectilinear lobby entry plan form off-centred on a characteristic windbreak; the construction in unrefined local materials displaying a pronounced 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 a replenished oat thatch finish: however, the introduction of replacement fittings to most of the openings has not had a beneficial impact on the external expression or integrity of a house making a picturesque visual statement in a rural village street scene presently (2007) undergoing "suburban" development.