Heath Cottage — MEENDERRYGAMP

Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1850, having central single-bay single-storey porch to the front elevation (east), and with two-bay single-storey entrance porch to the south end of the rear elevation (west). Now out of use. Pitched natural slate roof with wide projecting cut stone eaves course to front and rear (east and west), cast-iron gutters on decorative metal brackets, and with rendered chimneystacks to either gable end (north and south) having terracotta pots over. Pitched natural slate roof to front porch and mono-pitched natural slate roof to rear porch. Lime rendered rubble stone walls. Square headed window openings with stone sills, and having eight-over-eight, six-over- three and two-over-two pane timber sash windows, some retaining historic glass. Square headed door opening to the north elevation of front porch having battened timber door. Square-headed doorway to the north elevation of porch to the rear having battened timber door. Set back from road in own grounds in the rural countryside to the north-west of Gaoth Dobhair [Gweedore]. Overgrown garden to the front (east) and yard to the rear (west). Complex of two-storey outbuildings to site; detached three-bay two-storey house to the south of yard having pitched natural slate roof with raised rendered verges to gable ends, limewashed rubble stone walls, and square-headed openings with timber fittings; detached two-bay single-storey outbuilding to the west side of yard having pitched artificial slate roof with chimneystack to gable end, partially roughcast lime rendered rubble stone walls, and square-headed openings. Gateway to the north of site with wrought-iron flat bar gate with initials "H" and "C". Laneway to the house from the north flanked by rubble stone boundary walls.