Survey Data
Reg No
31203025
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Historical, Social
Original Use
Farm house
Date
1840 - 1868
Coordinates
121124, 329440
Date Recorded
13/12/2010
Date Updated
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Description
Detached five-bay single-storey farmhouse with half-dormer attic, extant 1868, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch. Refenestrated, ----. For sale, 2013. Pitched slate roof centred on gablet to window opening to half-dormer attic with roll moulded clay ridge tiles, paired rendered chimney stacks having corbelled stepped stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta pots, dragged cut-limestone coping to gables on "Cavetto"-detailed "Bowtell" kneelers with "Fleur-de-Lys" finials to apexes, and cast-iron rainwater goods on dragged cut-limestone "Bowtell" cornice retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Roughcast walls bellcast over rendered plinth with rendered quoins to corners. Central door opening with concealed dressings framing timber panelled double doors. Square-headed window opening (half-dormer attic) with drag edged dragged cut-limestone block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings with rendered block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing replacement two-over-two sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors. Set in landscaped grounds perpendicular to road with rendered piers to perimeter having pyramidal capping supporting flat iron double gates.
Appraisal
A farmhouse erected by or for the Very Reverend James Collins DD (d. 1868; Calendars of Wills and Administrations 1868, 79) representing an important component of the mid nineteenth-century domestic built heritage of Killala with the architectural value of the composition confirmed by such attributes as the compact plan form centred on an expressed, albeit later porch; the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression with the principal "apartments" defined by polygonal bay windows; and the miniature gablet embellishing the roofline. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original or replicated fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, thus upholding the character or integrity of a farmhouse having historic connections with the Craven family including William Craven (d. 1909), 'Farmer late of Brookview Killala County Mayo' (Calendars of Wills and Administrations 1909, 108).