House in Ballycastle, County Mayo

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Attached three-bay single-storey house, extant 1838, on a rectangular plan. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles terminating in cement rendered chimney stack having concrete capping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on exposed timber rafters retaining cast-iron downpipe. Limewashed rendered walls. Square-headed central door opening with concealed dressings framing timber boarded door. Square-headed flanking window openings with shallow sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Street fronted with tarmacadam footpath to front.

A house representing an integral component of the domestic built heritage of Ballycastle with the underlying vernacular basis of the composition, one potentially dating back to the "foundation" of the market town (1797) by the Knoxes of Castlereagh (Ní Chiobúin 2004, 221), suggested by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form; and the high pitched roof showing a slab-like slate finish. A prolonged period of unoccupancy notwithstanding, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the historic or original fabric, thereby upholding the character or integrity of a house making a pleasing visual statement in a rural village street scene.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 31201001

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