farm house

Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, post-1920, on a symmetrical plan. Now disused. Hipped slate roof with lichen-covered clay or terracotta ridge tiles, paired rendered central chimney stacks having corbelled stepped stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on box eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered walls (ground floor) with rusticated rendered piers to ends supporting rendered stringcourse; fine roughcast surface finish (first floor) with rendered strips to ends supporting rendered band to eaves. Hipped camber-headed central door opening with timber mullions on concrete step threshold supporting timber transom, and moulded rendered surround framing replacement timber panelled door having sidelights below overlight. Camber-headed window openings with concrete sills, and moulded rendered surrounds framing one-over-one timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set back from road in landscaped grounds with rendered piers to perimeter having moss-covered stepped capping supporting flat iron gate.

A farmhouse representing an integral component of the twentieth-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 an understated doorcase; and the slight diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression. A period of unoccupancy or neglect notwithstanding, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, thus upholding the character or integrity of a farmhouse making a pleasing visual statement in a rural street scene.