Survey Data
Reg No
31305508
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
Date
1840 - 1915
Coordinates
73432, 299567
Date Recorded
07/03/2011
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house, extant 1915, a rectangular plan. Now disused. Pitched slate roof on timber construction with clay ridge tiles, concrete coping to gables with rendered chimney stacks to apexes having corbelled stepped stringcourses below capping supporting yellow terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards with cast-iron downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined wall to front (north) elevation; limewashed roughcast surface finish (remainder). Square-headed central door opening with concealed dressings framing timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Street fronted with concrete footpath to front.
Appraisal
A house representing an integral component of the nineteenth-century domestic built heritage of Gob an Choire [Achill Sound] with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact plan form centred on a featureless doorcase; and the somewhat disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing compounded by the uniform or near uniform proportions of the centralised openings on each floor. A prolonged period of neglect notwithstanding, the form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, thus upholding much of the character or integrity of a house making a pleasing, if increasingly forlorn visual statement in a waterside village street scene.