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Teach Samhrain — BALLASK (Forth By.)

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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 gabled windbreak. Vacant, 1901. Occupied, 1911. Renovated, 1996. Repaired, 2004, to accommodate continued occasional use. Replacement hipped water reed thatch roof on oat thatch base with chicken wire-covered exposed hazel lattice stretchers to raised ridge having exposed scallops, cement rendered off-central chimney stack having stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and blind stretchers to eaves having blind scallops. Replacement rendered battered walls; rendered surface finish to rear (west) elevation centred on rendered battered buttress. Segmental-headed off-central door opening below "oeil-de-boeuf" with concealed dressings framing replacement glazed timber panelled door having fanlight. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement timber casement windows replacing six-over-six (south) or two-over-two (north) timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set back from road in landscaped grounds with limewashed cylindrical piers to perimeter having conical capping.

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