Croy Lodge — AUGHNESS

The saved account records: Detached three-bay single-storey fishing lodge with half-dormer attic, extant 1832, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch.

The saved account records: Pitched slate roof on collared timber construction with clay ridge tiles, concrete or rendered coping to gables with rendered, ruled and lined chimney stacks to apexes having corbelled stepped stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta pots, and no rainwater goods surviving on exposed timber rafters.

The saved account records: Rendered, ruled and lined coursed rubble limestone battered walls with concealed flush quoins to corners.

The saved account records: Square-headed window opening in tripartite arrangement (porch) with concrete sill, timber mullions, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash window having one-over-one sidelights.

Croy Lodge — AUGHNESS matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: A fishing lodge representing an integral component of the built heritage of County Mayo with the architectural value of the composition, '[a] cottage on a most wild coast [overlooking Tullaghan Bay]' (Nicholson 1850, 333), suggested by such traits as the compact rectilinear plan form centred on an expressed porch; the disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing compounded by the uniform or near-uniform proportions of the openings on each floor; and the high pitched roof. A prolonged period of unoccupancy notwithstanding, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial… This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.