Brockagh

The saved account records: Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, built 1805, on a rectangular plan.

The saved account records: Hipped slate roof with lichen-covered clay ridge tiles centred on paired rendered chimney stacks having concrete capping supporting yellow terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes.

The saved account records: Part creeper- or ivy-covered rendered, ruled and lined walls with rusticated rendered piers to corners.

The saved account records: Segmental-headed central door opening with timber mullions on step threshold supporting timber transom, and concealed dressings framing timber panelled door having sidelights below fanlight.

Brockagh matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: A farmhouse representing an integral component of the early nineteenth-century domestic built heritage of County Mayo with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form centred on a Classically-detailed doorcase showing a simple radial fanlight; the slight diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a feint graduated visual impression; and the high pitched roof. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the… This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.