Survey Data
Reg No
31308810
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Historical, Social
Original Use
Presbytery/parochial/curate's house
Date
1840 - 1897
Coordinates
103286, 280149
Date Recorded
14/01/2013
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey presbytery, extant 1897, on a T-shaped plan originally three-bay single-storey with single-bay (single-bay deep) full-height central return (west). "Improved", pre-1911, producing present composition. Now disused. Hipped slate roof on a T-shaped plan with clay ridge tiles, paired rendered central chimney stacks having stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta tapered pots, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Gritdashed roughcast walls bellcast over rendered plinth with rusticated rendered quoins to corners. Square-headed central door opening with rendered surround framing replacement glazed timber panelled door having overlight. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and rendered surrounds framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central 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 shutters to window openings. Set in landscaped grounds with piers to perimeter supporting wrought iron gate.
Appraisal
A presbytery representing an integral component of the later nineteenth-century built heritage of County Mayo with the architectural value of the composition, one rooted firmly in the prevailing late Georgian fashion, 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 openings on each floor. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, thus upholding the character or integrity of a presbytery having historic connections with the Aghagower parish Catholic clergy including Reverend Patrick Flatley PP (1830-1910), 'late of Aughagower [sic] County Mayo' (Calendars of Wills and Administrations 1910, 201); and Reverend John Flatley PP (1847-1929).