Overview
The Thatch — Annestown is recorded as house in Waterford. Detached three-bay single-storey thatched cottage with dormer attic, c.1820. Renovated and refenestrated, c.1995.
Why it was built
The saved account records: Hipped roof with reed thatch in English style having rope work to ridge, and replacement cement rendered chimney stack, c.1995.
People and work
The saved account records: Detached three-bay single-storey thatched cottage with dormer attic, c.1820.
How it changed
The saved account records: Renovated and refenestrated, c.1995.
What survives
The saved account records: Set back from line of road on a corner site with cobbled forecourt, having random rubble stone boundary wall.(ii) Detached two-bay single-storey mono-pitched rubble stone outbuilding, c.1895, to north.
Why it mattered
The Thatch — Annestown matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: A picturesque, modest-scale cottage forming an important element of the vernacular heritage of County Waterford, as identified by characteristics including the small-scale proportions to the openings, and the thatched roof. The cottage is of particular significance as one of the last remaining thatched buildings in the locality, having once represented the predominant form of domestic architecture in Annestown. Reasonably well maintained, the cottage retains most of its original form and massing, together with some important salient features and materials, both to the exterior and to the interior. The cottage… This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.
History checked 15 August 2026 against the named sources below.
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