Survey Data
Reg No
31308706
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Historical, Social
Previous Name
Croaghpatrick Hotel
Original Use
Hotel
Date
1902 - 1911
Coordinates
92006, 282335
Date Recorded
19/11/2010
Date Updated
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Description
Detached four-bay two-storey hotel, extant 1911, originally three-bay two-storey[?] with five-bay two-storey recessed lower wing (west) originally thatched[?]. Disused, 2009. "Restored", 2010. Pitched slate roofs with clay ridge tiles, concrete or rendered coping to gables with rendered chimney stacks to apexes having concrete capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta tapered pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined walls. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes with two-over-two timber sash windows (west) having part exposed sash boxes. Road fronted with tarmacadam verge to front.
Appraisal
An hotel reconstructed for Owen Campbell (b. 1842), 'Farmer [and] Publican' (NA 1911), not only as the successor to, but also abutting an eighteenth-century farmhouse (1740) displaying an abbreviated footprint on the first edition of the Ordnance Survey (surveyed 1838; published 1840): meanwhile, such traits as the rectilinear plan form; the feint battered silhouette; the somewhat disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing; and the high pitched roofline, all indicate the vernacular provenance of the composition. Having been sympathetically restored following a brief period of neglect, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, thereby upholding the character or integrity of an hotel making a pleasing visual statement in a sylvan setting in the shadow of Croagh Patrick.