Survey Data
Reg No
31312315
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
Farm house
In Use As
Farm house
Date
1841 - 1894
Coordinates
120658, 249710
Date Recorded
08/03/2012
Date Updated
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Description
Detached four-bay single-storey direct entry thatched farmhouse with dormer attic, extant 1894. Reroofed, 2005. Pitched roof with replacement reed thatch, exposed steel lattice stretchers to ridge having blind scallops, cement rendered chimney stack having stepped capping, and concrete coping to gables. Part creeper- or ivy-covered limewashed lime rendered battered walls; cement rendered surface finish to rear (south-east) elevation with rusticated rendered piers to ends supporting rendered band to eaves. Square-headed window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows with one-over-one timber sash windows to rear (south-east) elevation. Square-headed opposing door openings with concealed dressings framing glazed timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled doors. Interior including kitchen retaining hearth with rusticated surround centred on keystone, opposing loft ladder with timber "match stick" balusters terminating in timber newel, and timber boarded vaulted ceiling; bedroom (north-east) with timber boarded vaulted ceiling; and timber boarded splayed reveals or shutters to window openings to remainder. Set in own grounds with limewashed piers to "cottage garden" having ivy-covered capping.
Appraisal
A farmhouse identified as an important component of the nineteenth-century vernacular heritage of south County Mayo by such attributes as the rectilinear direct entry plan form; the construction in unrefined local fieldstone displaying a battered silhouette; and the high pitched roof showing a replenished thatch finish. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the historic or original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, thereby upholding the character or integrity of a farmhouse making a pleasing visual statement in a sylvan setting.