The Thatched Cottage

Detached four-bay single-storey direct entry thatched house, extant 1914. Renovated to accommodate occasional use. For sale, 2007. Pitched thatch roof on collared timber construction with exposed hazel or sally lattice stretchers to ridge having exposed scallops, cement rendered dwarf chimney stack having concrete capping supporting terracotta pots, and concrete coping to gables. Replacement cement rendered battered walls bellcast over rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and rendered "bas-relief" surrounds framing replacement timber casement windows. Square-headed opposing door openings with rendered "bas-relief" surrounds framing timber doors. Interior including kitchen with timber panelled chimneypiece centred on "hipped" hearth. Set in landscaped grounds perpendicular to road.

A house identified as an integral component of the nineteenth-century vernacular heritage of south County Mayo by such traits as the alignment perpendicular to the road; the rectilinear direct entry plan form; the construction in unrefined local fieldstone displaying a battered silhouette; the disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing with the stepped profile of the openings following the gradient of the site; and the high pitched roof showing a replenished thatch finish.