Former Thatched Cottage

Stradreagh, Causeway Coast and Glens, Northern Ireland

The record

Designation: Record only (not listed)
Grade: Record Only
Type: House
Date of construction: 1820 - 1839
Address: Former Thatched Cottage, Stradreagh, Limavady, Co Londonderry
Townland: Stradreagh
Council: Causeway Coast and Glens
Country: Northern Ireland
Coordinates: 55.09398, -6.88118
Date of survey: 05 November 1997
HB reference: HB02/11/017

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Exterior description and setting

Former direct entry thatched cottage with associated outbuildings. Thatch collapsed in on house. Remains of truss and some thatch visible. Small window in south west gable of wallstead lighting former roof space. Door gone. Remains of three windows into the two roomed cottage. No bed outshot or windows to rear. Small barn downhill. Run of barns perpendicular to the house to the north east. These are on flat ground at the base of a cliff. The house is parallel to the approach road. Walls are in basalt with no trace of the former white wash.

Historical information

Recorded in the first survey of 1970 as thatched, appears on the 1831 Ordnance Survey Map.

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Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Derelict former direct entry cottage, now in a ruinous condition.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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