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Detached three-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1860, having single-bay flat-roofed windbreak to centre of front elevation (east), bed outshot to rear, single-bay single-storey extension attached to south gable, and with single-bay single-storey outbuilding attached to north gable. Recently renovated by local community and now in use as heritage centre. Pitched thatched roof to main dwelling, having ropes over, secured below eaves level by stone pegs, and with raised rendered verges to gable; Roughly hewn timber roof structure to interior of heavy A-framed trusses with saddles to ridge, all pegged together and supporting purlins and ribs in turn, below sod underthatch and thatch proper. Pitched schist slate roof (Roshine slate) in diminishing courses to extension to south, having raised rendered copings and low rendered chimneystacks; pitched thatched roof to outbuilding to north with ropes above, secured below eaves level by stone pegs, and with raised rendered coping to north gable. Smooth-rendered rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings to house and extension to south, with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed timber battened door to windbreak. Square-headed timber battened doors to north side of windbreak and to outbuilding to north. Timber roof structure, timber furniture and flag stoned floors to interior. Set slightly back from road in own grounds, overlooking Bá Bhaile an Easa [Ballyness Bay]. Recent stone wall and gateway to road frontage. Detached single-storey outbuilding to north, set at right angle to road, with pitched roped thatched roof secured with stone pegs, raised rendered copings to gables, smooth-rendered walls and square-headed window and door openings with timber sliding sash windows and timber battened doors. Group of single-storey outbuildings to rear with pitched thatched and corrugated-metal roofs.
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