house — Ballyshannon

Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1800, having bed outshot to the rear (west) and with single-bay single-storey extension to the south. Extended to the north by a bay, c. 1860. Pitched thatched roof with chicken-wire over, rendered eaves course, raised rendered coping to the gable ends (north and south) and with three rendered chimneystacks (one to either gable end and one offset to the north side of centre); artificial slate roof to extension to the south with rendered chimneystack to the south gable end. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with plain rendered surrounds, painted sills and replacement window fittings. Square-headed door opening, offset to the south side of centre, having rendered plain surround with moulded brackets\corbels to either side of doorway, and with replacement timber door. Set slightly back from road with small enclosed yards to the front (east). Bounded on road-frontage to the east by low rendered boundary walls having painted coping over. Rubble stone boundary wall to the south of house, and blockwork wall to the south-west boundary of site to rear. Detached single-storey outbuilding to the rear (west) having rendered and rubble stone walls, pitched corrugated-metal roof and square-headed openings with timber fittings. Located to the north-west of Ballyshannon adjacent to road junction. Single-storey thatched house adjacent to the north (see 40910750).