Rockfleet Lodge

The saved account records: Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors

The saved account records: Detached five-bay two-storey fishing lodge, extant 1838, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to ground floor.

The saved account records: Pitched slate roofs including pitched (gabled) slate roof (porch), roll moulded clay ridge tiles centred on paired rendered chimney stacks having red brick chevron- or saw tooth-detailed corbelled stepped capping supporting crested yellow terracotta tapered pots, decorative timber bargeboards to gables on timber purlins, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on exposed timber rafters.

The saved account records: Creeper- or ivy-covered rendered, ruled and lined walls with rusticated rendered quoins to corners.

Rockfleet Lodge matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: A fishing lodge representing an integral component of the built heritage of County Mayo with the architectural value of the composition confirmed by such attributes as the symmetrical plan form centred on an expressed, albeit later porch; the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression; and the decorative timber work embellishing a high pitched roofline. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the historic or original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, thus upholding the… This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.