Beak Cottage

Detached three-bay single-storey marine villa, rebuilt 1870, on a rectangular plan. Occupied, 1901. Vacant, 1911. Renovated, ----. Replacement hipped artificial slate roof with ridge tiles, paired cement rendered central chimney stacks having corbeled stepped stringcourses below capping, and uPVC rainwater goods on slightly overhanging eaves. Replacement cement rendered walls. Hipped segmental-headed central door opening with timber mullions supporting timber transom, and concealed dressings framing timber panelled double doors having sidelights below fanlight. Square-headed flanking window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement six-over-six uPVC sash windows without horns retaining part exposed sash boxes. Interior including central entrance hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set in landscaped grounds.

A marine villa representing an integral component of the later nineteenth-century domestic built heritage of Kilmore Quay with the architectural value of the composition, one most likely retaining the basis of an earlier house marked on the first edition of the Ordnance Survey (surveyed 1840; published 1841), confirmed by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form centred on a Classically-detailed doorcase showing a pretty fanlight; and the slightly oversailing roofline. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, thus upholding much of the character or integrity of a marine villa having historic connections with the Mayler family including Mathew Mayler (d. 1895; Bassett 1885, 177).