Lurgyvale Thatched Cottage — Kilmacrennan

Detached three-bay single-storey vernacular house with attic\loft level, built c. 1860, having central windbreak porch to the front elevation (south). Renovated c. 2005 and now in use as museum, craft shop, and tea rooms\cafe. Pitched thatched roof having ropes over secured by pegs beneath eaves level, decorative rope work to ridge, and with rendered chimneystacks and raised rendered verges to the gable ends (east and west). Roughcast rendered rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings to front elevation and rear elevations with painted sills, and with six-over-three pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed window openings to the east and west elevations at loft level having two-over-two pane timber windows. Square-headed doorway to front face of porch having replacement batted timber half-doors. Located adjacent to road at right-angle to road-alignment, to the north-west end of Kilmacrenan, and a short distance to the north of the north bank of the River Lurgy. Garden to front (south) with collection of historic farm machinery and domestic appliances. Detached single-storey outbuilding to the north-west, built c. 1880 and renovated c. 2005, having pitched rope-and-peg thatched roof with raised rendered verges to the gable ends, roughcast rendered rubble stone walls, and square-headed window openings with timber windows, and square-headed doorways with battened timber doors. Detached three-bay two-storey outbuilding to the west, renovated c. 2005, having pitched rope-and-peg thatched roof with rendered verges to the gable ends, rendered rubble stone walls, and square-headed window openings with four-pane timber windows, and central square-headed doorway with battened timber door. Rubble stone boundary wall to road-frontage to the east. Gateway to the north-east having a pair of rubble stone gate piers (on circular-plan).