House

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

A one-storey/ three-bay thatched dwelling on north side of track off main road. There was formerly an attached outbuilding at the west end, but this has recently been demolished to make way for an animal pen.

Pitched roof with thatch under more recent corrugated metal sheeting. Stone verge to east gable. Vestige of chimney between bays 1 and 2. Lime-rendered and ochre-washed random rubble walls with roughly-dressed quoins.

The principal elevation faces SE. There is a windbreak porch at the right-hand end of the middle bay, with beaded t+g door. There is a single window to each bay, all with dressed stone cills.

The SW gable is blank (no connecting door between house and demolished bay).

The NW elevation has a window to the middle bay, now sheeted over. There is an outward lean to this wall, indicating structural instability.

The NE gable is abutted by a smaller byre. It has a corrugated metal roof with stone verge and unrendered random rubble walls. The tin sheeting over scraw laid on sawn lathes and rafters. There is a doorway to its front (SE) elevation, window to gable and infilled opening to the middle of the rear wall. The exposed section of the main block is blank.

To the rear is an outbuilding detailed at the shed abutting the house (but without scraw roof underlay).

Historical information

A building, possibly the present one, is shown on the 1834 OS 6” map. It is probably of earlier 19th century date. The outbuilding is shown on the 1857 map, indicating a mid-19th century date.

Primary sources:
1. OS 6" map 1st ed 1834, Co Fermanagh 30.
2. OS 6” map 2nd ed 1857, Co Fermanagh 30.

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

A substantial linear vernacular house which retains traces of its original thatch.