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Detached three-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1820, having single-bay single-storey outbuilding attached to the east gable end. Recently restored but currently unoccupied. Possibly originally a flax scutcher’s cottage associated with Newmills flax mill (see 40829002). Pitched flax thatched roof with raised verges to gable ends (east and west), ridge, and with rubble stone chimneystack to the east gable end. Whitewashed rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings with no sills, timber lintels over, and with replacement timber casement windows. Central square-headed doorway having battened timber door. Attached single-bay single-storey outbuilding adjoining to east having pitched corrugated-metal roof, whitewashed rubble stone walls ,and square-headed doorway with battened timber door. Set back from road in own grounds to centre of field adjacent to the north of former mill pond associated with Newmills corn mill (see 40829001) and flax mill (see 40829002), and a short distance to the west of the mill complex. Garden to north of site, and approached from south via gravel laneway. Gateway to the south comprising a pair of rubble stone gate piers (on circular plan) having hooped wrought-iron gate. Located in the rural countryside to the south-west of Letterkenny. Stile adjacent to the west of gateway.
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