Keal Cottage — DROMANEEN

Detached T-plan five-bay single-storey vernacular house with attic to east end, built c. 1820, and having three-bay two-storey former house to east end of rear elevation. Hipped thatched roof, with painted rendered chimneystack. Rendered coursed rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, having pseudo-four-centered upper sashes to front (west) elevation and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to rear. Main house has square-headed replacement timber door with overlight. Former house has pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystack having terracotta chimney pots, rendered walls and square-headed window openings, boarded to first floor and having replacement uPVC and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to ground floor, and square-headed timber battened door. Outbuildings to north and east, with pitched corrugated-iron roofs, painted rendered walls and square-headed openings with timber louvered windows and timber battened door. East outbuilding has elliptical-headed opening with replacement metal gate. Corrugated-iron cow sheds and barns to north. Rendered boundary walls to yard with rendered copings terminating in square plan rendered square plan piers with double-leaf wrought-iron gates. Square-headed pedestrian gate opening to rendered boundary wall south of house, with square-plan rendered piers with spherical copings and wrought-iron gates. Rendered square plan piers to road entrance with aediculated triangular copings, set in curved entrance having rendered boundary walls terminating in similar inner piers, with decorative wrought-iron double-leaf gates.