
What is recorded here
The Thatch in Bunatober has decorative knots along its ridge and a windbreak guarding the entrance. After getting the whole house’s hair done, you’re hardly going to let a Galway gust march in and demand a turn.
Detached five-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1800, having windbreak to entrance, and single-storey extension to rear. Pitched thatched roof with exposed scollops and decorative knotting to ridge, rendered copings and one rendered chimneystack. Rendered walls with render plinth to sill level, render parallel quoins to front corners of house and windbreak, and render eaves course. Square-headed window openings with decorative render surrounds and replacement timber casement windows. Square-headed timber sheeted half-door to entrance. Set parallel to road with single-storey outbuilding to west having random rubble walls, painted timber boundary fence and enclosed garden to north-west and field stone boundary wall to south-east.
This attractive thatched house has been extended and renovated in recent years but still retains traditional characteristics and form with its thatched roof and low chimneystack. Decorative details enliven the front façade and the associated outbuilding completes the grouping.
From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 30405613
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