house — CALHAME (DUNKINEELY)

Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1860. Pitched straw thatched roof having two rendered chimneystacks (one to the south gable end and one offset to the north side of centre). Metal pegs below eaves level (for securing ropes over thatch) to the front and rear elevations, and along gable ends. Whitewashed roughcast rendered rubble stone wall. Square-headed window openings with stone sills and having six-over-six and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening, offset to the south side of centre), having plinth blocks and replacement half-glazes timber sheeted door. Largely blank elevation to rear (west) having one square-headed doorway with timber sheeted door. Set back from road in elevated site to the north of Dunkineely. Approach avenue to house from the south. Vernacular two-storey outbuilding to east having pitched corrugated-metal roof with raised rendered verges to the gable ends, rubble stone walls with roughly dressed and squared flush quoins to the corners, and square-headed doorways and loading bays having timber sheeted doors; some doorways having stone lintels over. Flight of cut stone steps to gable end giving access to north gable end giving access to doorway at first floor level. Yards to front and rear of site.