The Thatched Cottage

Detached five-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched house with dormer attic, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan. Chicken wire-covered hipped oat thatch roof with pressed iron ridge, red brick Running bond off-central dwarf chimney stack having stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and exposed wire stretchers to eaves having exposed wire scallops. Limewashed rendered battered walls. Square-headed central door opening with concealed dressings framing timber boarded door. Square-headed flanking window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set back from line of road in landscaped grounds with piers to perimeter having domed capping supporting timber gate.

A house identified as an integral component of the vernacular heritage of the outskirts of Kilmore Quay by such attributes as the rectilinear lobby entry plan form; the construction in unrefined local materials displaying a pronounced battered silhouette with sections of "daub" or mud suggested by an entry in the "House and Building Return" Form of the National Census (NA 1901; NA 1911); and the high pitched roof showing a replenished oat thatch finish. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the historic or original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, thus upholding the character or integrity of a house making a pleasing visual statement in a rural street scene.