house

Detached four-bay single-storey thatched cottage with dormer attic, c.1800, with entrance windbreak. Extended, c.1900, comprising single-bay single-storey higher end bay to right. Refenestrated, c.1975. Hipped and pitched roof with water reed thatch having rope work to ridge, and red brick Running bond chimney stack. Pitched slate roof to end bay with clay ridge tiles, rendered coping, and iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Painted rendered walls (incorporating rounded corners) over random rubble stone construction having sections of mud wall construction. Square-headed window openings with painted sills, and replacement timber casement windows, c.1975. Square-headed door opening with replacement glazed tongue-and-groove timber panelled door, pre-1994. Set back from road in own grounds with hedge boundary to perimeter of site.

Representing an integral component of the vernacular legacy of Kilkenny as identified by characteristics including the construction in locally-sourced materials, the windbreak, the thatched roof, and so on a modest-scale cottage forms part of a wider settlement or clachán (including 12404515 - 6, 8/KK-45-15 - 6, 8), one of a number of such vernacular assemblages in the south of the county. Retaining the original composition attributes together with substantial quantities of the historic fabric the cottage makes a positive contribution to the aesthetic appeal of Corluddy.