house — COOL BEG

Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1800 and extended to the west c. 1880, and with single-storey extension to rear (north), built c. 1930. Pitched reed thatch roof having projecting rendered eaves course, raised rendered verges to the gable ends (east and west), and with two rendered chimneystacks (one to the east gable end and one offset to the west side of centre). Smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walls to front elevation (south), painted limewashed walls to the east and the rear (north) elevations. Square-headed window openings with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to original building, six-over-three pane timber sliding sash window to extension to the west end of the main elevation (south). Square-headed window openings to rear extensions having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening, offset to the east side of centre, having battened timber door. Set well back from road and aligned at a right-angle to the road alignment. Located in the rural countryside to the north-west of Ballyshannon and to the south-east of Rossnowlagh. Long approach avenue to house from the east. Detached three-bay single-storey outbuilding to the south-west having pitched corrugated-metal roof, rendered rubble stone walls, and square-headed openings with battened timber doors. Detached two-bay single-storey outbuilding to the west having mono-pitched corrugated-metal roof, rendered rubble stone walls, square-headed door opening with battened timber half-doors, and with square-headed carriage-arch having corrugated-metal double-doors. Gateway to the road-frontage to the east comprising a pair of smooth rendered ruled-and-lined gate piers (on square-plan) having pyramidal coping over, and with wrought-iron flat-bar gates. Gateway flanked to either side (north and south) by quadrant sections of roughcast rendered boundary walls terminated to the east ends by rendered gate piers (on square-plan).