Mountain View

Detached six-bay two-storey house, extant 1855, on a rectangular plan originally three-bay two-storey on a square plan; three-bay two-storey recessed wing (south). In alternative use, 1891-1958. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, concrete coping to gables with rendered chimney stacks to apexes having stringcourses below capping supporting yellow terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards with cast-iron downpipes; pitched slate roof (south) with terracotta ridge tiles, rendered off-central chimney stack having corbelled stepped stringcourse below capping supporting terracotta pots, concrete coping to gable (south), and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards with cast-iron downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined walls. Square-headed window openings with sills, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Square-headed window openings (south) with sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set back from line of road with looped wrought iron railings to perimeter.

A house representing an integral component of the domestic built heritage of Doogort with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the elongated rectilinear plan form; the somewhat disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing compounded by the diminishing in scale of the widely spaced openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression; and the high pitched roof. NOTE: The house first appears on the Primary Valuation of Ireland (1855) but, repurposed as Mountaiview Hotel, was extended in phases at the turn of the twentieth century: one extension absorbed a thatched house photographed by Robert French (1841-1917) of William Lawrence [NLI L_CAB_04139]. Mountainview Hotel was still trading in 1942 when it was recorded as a ten-bedroom one-bathroom hotel by the Irish Tourist Association.