Survey Data
Reg No
31307023
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Worker's house
Date
1865 - 1895
Coordinates
122738, 292929
Date Recorded
14/01/2013
Date Updated
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Description
Detached two-bay single-storey crossing guard's lodge, commissioned 1868[?]; extant 1895. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles centred on red brick Running bond chimney stack having concrete capping supporting terracotta pots, timber bargeboards to gables on timber purlins, and replacement plastic rainwater goods on timber eaves boards. Part creeper- or ivy-covered limewashed roughcast walls. Square-headed window openings with roughcast cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows having exposed sash boxes. Set in unkempt grounds perpendicular to lane.
Appraisal
A crossing guard's lodge identified as an integral component of the mid nineteenth-century built heritage of County Mayo on account of the connections with the extension of the Mayo Branch of the Midland Great Western Railway (MGWR) line (opened 1868) by the Great Northern and Western Railway (GNWR) Company. A prolonged period of unoccupancy notwithstanding, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, thus upholding the character or integrity of a crossing guard's lodge making a pleasing visual statement in a pastoral setting.