Ashbrook House

The saved account records: Remains of detached three- or five-bay two-storey farmhouse, extant 1777, on a T-shaped plan with outline of single-bay (single-bay deep) full-height central return (east).

The saved account records: Set in landscaped grounds with cement rendered piers to perimeter supporting tubular steel "farm gate".

The saved wording does not establish one complete story of attack, rebuilding, abandonment, damage or later change. No single cause is claimed without evidence.

The official record fixes the place and calls it farm house. It does not provide a full list of finds or a current condition report, so visible and buried remains are not guessed.

Ashbrook House matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: The remains of a farmhouse or minor country annotated as "Ashbrook [of] Moore Esquire" by Taylor and Skinner (1778 pl. 223) regarded as an interesting component of the eighteenth-century domestic architectural heritage of County Mayo. Furthermore, an adjoining walled garden (extant 1838); the fragments of a chapel housing the remains of George Moore (1729-99) of Moore Hall (ITA 1944); and an opposing monolithic dovecote annotated as "Pigeon House" on the first edition of the Ordnance Survey (surveyed 1838; published 1839), all continue to contribute positively to the group and setting values of an… This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.