Grouse Lodge

Detached four-bay two-storey shooting lodge, extant 1838, on a T-shaped plan originally three-bay two-storey on a symmetrical plan centred on single-bay full-height breakfront on an engaged half-octagonal plan. "Restored", 2000. For sale, 2010. Replacement pitched slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on half-octagonal slate roof (breakfront), clay ridge tiles, paired cement rendered central chimney stacks having concrete capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta octagonal pots, and uPVC rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on roughcast cut-limestone eaves. Creeper- or ivy-covered roughcast battered walls bellcast over rendered plinth. Round-headed central door opening with rusticated rendered surround framing replacement timber panelled door having overlight. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement one-over-one timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set in landscaped grounds with piers to perimeter having lichen-covered cut-limestone capping supporting flat iron "farm gate".

A shooting lodge representing an integral component of the built heritage of County Mayo with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the deliberate alignment maximising on panoramic vistas overlooking rolling grounds with Croaghmoyle Mountain as a backdrop; the compact plan form centred on a polygonal breakfront; and the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated tiered visual effect: meanwhile, aspects of the composition clearly illustrate the continued linear development of the shooting lodge in the twentieth century. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with quantities of the original or sympathetically replicated fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, thus upholding the character or integrity of a shooting lodge having historic connections with the Daly family (NA 1911); and a succession of gamekeepers including Patrick Crofton (----), 'Gamekeeper' (NA 1911).