house

Detached three-bay single-storey thatched cottage, c.1800. Extensively renovated, c.1950, with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch added to centre. Undergoing reroofing, 2004-5. Pitched and hipped roof undergoing reroofing, 2004-5, with replacement water reed thatch over earlier water reed thatch having rope work to ridge, red brick Running bond chimney stack, and rendered coping to gable. Flat corrugated-iron roof to porch with rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Painted rendered walls over random rubble stone construction having slight batter with rendered buttress to side (south-west) elevation. Square-headed window openings with painted sills, rendered surrounds, and one-over-one timber sash windows (casement window to porch). Square-headed door opening with replacement glazed timber panelled door, post-1994. Set in own grounds perpendicular to road.

A small-scale cottage forming an important element of the vernacular heritage of County Kilkenny as identified by traits including the construction in locally-sourced materials, the thatched roof, and so on. Having been well maintained the cottage presents an early aspect with substantial quantities of the historic fabric surviving in place, thereby maintaining the integrity of a composition representing one of a number of vernacular artefacts concentrated in the south of County Kilkenny.