73 Cloy Road, Edenamohill Black, Ederney, Co. Fermanagh

No.73 Cloy Road is a single-storey -with loft level- direct-entry thatched vernacular house of pre-1835 construction, with attached single-storey outbuildings arranged in linear fashion. In rural surroundings, the property is set at an angle on a slope to the south side of the road, 3.8km East of the village of Ederney. The building has not been occupied for some years and is currently in a state of disrepair. The house faces roughly east. Abutting its south gable is a gabled outbuilding of lesser breadth and height than the house itself. Attached to the opposite gable are two further outbuildings, that to the south of similar height and breadth as the house (with stonework tied in with the latter’s front and rear walls), that to the north much narrower and lower. The walls and chimneystacks of the house are constructed in semi-coursed squared stone and rubble, with the gables rising to parapets with roughly dressed copings. The walls retain patches of lime render, which has largely discoloured. The south gable is slightly off plumb. The roof is covered in thatch, that is substantially decomposed . The roof retains its original roughly-hewn trusses to the North end although theyhave partially collapsed. To the south end, used as a bedroom, the ceiling is boarded and the construction may be purlins without trusses. The entrance consists of a small, off-centre porch with distinctive angled sides, a flat roof made up from a single slab of stone, and a flat-arched doorway with timber-sheeted double door. To the left of the porch is a relatively small flat-arch window-opening with c.1970s-80s replacement timber frame. To the right of the porch is a larger (enlarged) window-opening with a c.1950s-60s metal frame. To the south gable there are two very small, square upper level window-openings with fixed-light frames, whilst to the rear there are three window-openings, the outer openings similar to that at front left but with the remains of timber sash frames, the remaining opening as those to the gable. The outbuildings are constructed in a similar fashion to the house, but have corrugated-metal roofs. That to the south has a pedestrian doorway to front, with timber-sheeted door, whilst the larger of the northern buildings has a broader doorway (for a cart) with timber-sheeted double door. The smaller structure to the north appears to have a pedestrian door, but this could not be seen due to thick shrubbery. Each of the outbuildings has a window-opening to the rear, those to the northern buildings boarded up with corrugated-metal sheeting, with that to the southern building filled with a three-pane timber frame.