manse — MULLAFARRY

The saved account records: Detached three-bay two-storey manse, "secured" 1872, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to ground floor.

The saved account records: Replacement pitched artificial slate roofs including pitched (gabled) artificial slate roof (porch) with ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stacks having corbelled stepped stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta octagonal pots, and uPVC rainwater goods on box eaves.

The saved account records: Rendered walls with rusticated rendered quoins to ends.

The saved account records: Segmental-headed central door opening with concealed dressings framing replacement timber panelled door having overlight.

manse — MULLAFARRY matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: A manse representing an integral component of the later nineteenth-century built heritage of north County Mayo with the architectural value of the composition, 'a commodious [house] secured for [Reverend John Wilson (d. 1890)]' (Irwin 1890, 191), suggested by such attributes as the compact plan form centred on an expressed porch; the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated tiered visual effect; and the high pitched roofline. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior… This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.