Sheskin Lodge

Detached three-bay single-storey sporting lodge, occupied 1901, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting open porch. Now disused. Hipped slate roof on timber construction with roll moulded clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, and no rainwater goods visible on overgrown cut-limestone eaves[?]. Part overgrown rendered walls. Square-headed central door opening with concealed dressings framing remains of timber door having overlight. Square-headed flanking window openings with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Interior including entrance hall retaining timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors; and timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with timber panelled splayed reveals or shutters to window openings. Set in unkempt grounds.

A dilapidated sporting lodge erected for John Jameson of Dublin representing an interesting component of the later nineteenth-century domestic built heritage of north County Mayo with the architectural value of the composition, one succeeding a nearby lodge annotated as "Sheskin Lodge" on the first edition of the Ordnance Survey (surveyed 1838; published 1839), suggested by such attributes as the deliberate alignment maximising on scenic vistas overlooking rolling grounds; and the compact rectilinear plan form centred on a veranda-like porch. A prolonged period of unoccupancy or neglect notwithstanding, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with remnants of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, thereby upholding much of the character or integrity of a sporting lodge making a largely inconspicuous visual statement in a densely forested setting.