Beech Tree Cottage

Detached four-bay single-storey direct entry thatched house, extant 1893. "Restored", 2004, to accommodate occasional use. Replacement pitched Turkish reed thatch roof on collared timber construction with exposed wire stretchers to raised ridge having blind scallops, cement rendered chimney stack supporting terracotta pots, and concrete coping to gables. Replacement cement rendered battered walls. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills[?], and concealed dressings framing replacement two-over-two timber sash windows. Square-headed opposing door openings with concealed dressings framing replacement timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled half-doors. Interior including kitchen retaining "hipped" hearth, timber boarded opposing doors, and exposed collared timber roof construction. Road fronted with hardcore gravel verge to front.

A house identified as an integral component of the later 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 feint battered silhouette; the disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing; and the high pitched roof latterly showing a non-indigenous Turkish reed thatch finish.