Beech Grove — CORNALASSAN

The saved account records: Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, extant 1838, on an L-shaped plan centred on single-bay full-height breakfront on an elliptical bowed plan with two-bay (west) or single-bay (east) two-storey side elevations.

The saved account records: Hipped slate roof on an L-shaped plan on collared timber construction centred on half-conical slate roof with clay ridge tiles, paired rendered central chimney stacks having cut-limestone stringcourses below capping, and remains of cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-limestone eaves.

The saved account records: Rendered, ruled and lined walls to front (south) elevation on battered base with rendered "bas-relief" quoins to corners

The saved account records: fine roughcast surface finish (remainder).

Beech Grove — CORNALASSAN matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: A dilapidated farmhouse representing an integral component of the domestic built heritage of south County Mayo with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such traits as the compact plan form centred on a curvilinear breakfront showing a "sparrow pecked" doorcase demonstrating good quality workmanship; and the uniform or near-uniform proportions of the openings on each floor. A prolonged period of unoccupancy or neglect notwithstanding, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, thereby upholding much… This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.