farm house

Detached four-bay single-storey direct entry thatched farmhouse with dormer attic, extant 1838, originally attached. Extensively renovated, 1998. Replacement pitched Turkish reed thatch roof with chicken wire-covered exposed steel lattice stretchers to raised ridge having blind scallops, cement rendered chimney stack supporting terracotta pot, and concrete or rendered coping to gables. Replacement cement rendered battered walls. Square-headed window openings with shallow sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement timber casement windows. Square-headed opposing door openings with concealed dressings framing replacement glazed timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled half-doors. Set in landscaped grounds on a corner site with dry stone boundary wall to perimeter.

A farmhouse identified as an integral component of the vernacular heritage of County Mayo by such traits 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.