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Attached three-bay single-storey thatched cottage, c.1885, retaining early fenestration with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to centre. Extended, c.1980, comprising single-bay single-storey flat-roofed return to rear to north-east. Gable-ended roof with thatch. Rope work to ridges. Rendered chimney stack. Rendered coping to gables. Gabled to porch. Corrugated-iron. Iron ridge tiles. Decorative saw tooth bargeboards. Flat-roof to return. Bitumen felt. Rendered walls (possibly over rubble stone construction). Painted. Square-headed openings. Stone sills (concrete to return). 2/2 timber sash windows (timber casement windows to return). Replacement glazed timber panelled door, c.1980. Set back from bank of Grand Canal on grass verge. Concrete forecourt to front. Pre-cast concrete boundary wall, c.1980, to boundary.

This cottage is an attractive small-scale low single-storey thatched cottage - a building type that was once ubiquitous in Kildare but which have now mostly vanished. The cottage, still occupied and in very good condition, is of considerable vernacular importance as identified by the high-pitched thatched roof - it is also possibly of rubble stone or mud wall construction - and it's social significance is therefore assured. The cottage retains many important original features and materials, including the thatch to the main roof and early timber sash fenestration, while later twentieth-century additions do not impinge on the original character of the piece. The cottage is attractively set in its own landscaped plot just off the bank of the Grand Canal and is a prominent landmark or feature on that route, most notably when grouped with the adjacent rubble stone building to north-west (11806007/KD-13-06-07).