The Thorn — Letterkenny

Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1820, having single-bay single-storey gabled-front porch to the centre of the front elevation (east), and with two-bay two-storey return to the rear (west) with single-storey extension with mono-pitched roof attached to the north side. Now unoccupied. Pitched natural slate roof to main body of building having a central pair of smooth rendered chimneystacks, and with cast-iron rainwater goods. Pitched natural slate roof to porch with decorative ridge cresting. Hipped and pitched slate roof to return. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered block-and-start quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings with stone sills, and with tripartite one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to main elevation at ground floor and to the north side elevation at ground floor level, and one-over one pane timber sliding sash windows at first floor level; two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to return. Square-headed window openings to the east face of porch having paired fixed-pane timber-framed windows with segmental heads. Square-headed door opening to the north face of porch with timber panelled door with bolection mouldings. Complex of single- and two-storey outbuildings to the rear (west) on L-plan with four-bay two-storey outbuilding to south with formerly pitched corrugated-metal roof (now collapsed), whitewashed lime rendered rubble stone walls, square-headed window openings with remains of louvered timber fittings, and square-headed door openings with double-leaf and single-leaf battened timber; lean-to single-bay single-storey extension to east gable. Adjoining multiple-bay two-storey outbuilding to north having pitched slate roof, painted rendered lined-and-ruled walls, and square-headed openings with remains of timber battened shutters and doors. Single-storey outbuilding to north having mono-pitched corrugated-metal roof, whitewashed lime rendered rubble stone walls, square-headed openings with remains of paired timber windows, sliding timber battened doors with glazed latticed panel to north, and timber battened door to south. Set well-back from road in extensive grounds to the east of the centre of Letterkenny, and overlooking River Swilly to the east.