farm house — BALLYMOTY BEG

Detached three- or five-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched farmhouse with dormer attic, extant 1840, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled windbreak. Occupied, 1987. "Restored", ----, to accommodate occasional use. Replacement hipped gabled water reed thatch roof overhanging lean-to slate roofs to window openings to dormer attic with chicken wire-covered exposed hazel lattice stretchers to raised ridge having exposed scallops, cement rendered off-central chimney stack having capping supporting terracotta pots, and blind stretchers to eaves having blind scallops. Limewashed roughcast battered walls. Square-headed central door opening in round- or segmental-headed recess with concrete threshold, and concealed dressings including timber lintel framing replacement glazed timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled door. Square-headed flanking window openings with shallow sills, and concealed dressings including timber lintels framing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes; six-over-six timber sash windows to gables to side elevations with two-over-two timber sash windows to rear (north) elevation centred on six-over-six timber sash windows. Interior including central lobby with "spy hole". Set in relandscaped grounds including part stone cobbled courtyard.