Survey Data
Reg No
31310903
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Historical, Social
Previous Name
Lough Mask Hotel
Original Use
Hotel
Date
1902 - 1911
Coordinates
109748, 268269
Date Recorded
18/01/2011
Date Updated
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Description
Detached six-bay two-storey hotel, extant 1911, on a rectangular plan originally five-bay two-storey on a symmetrical plan. Extended, post-1918, producing present composition. Reroofed, ----. Replacement hipped artificial slate roof with clay ridge tiles, and uPVC rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on rendered eaves retaining some cast-iron downpipes. Creeper- or ivy-covered lime rendered or roughcast wall to front (east) elevation; cement rendered surface finish (remainder). Hipped segmental-headed central door opening in segmental-headed recess with concealed dressings framing timber panelled door having sidelights on diamond pointed panelled risers below overlight. Square-headed window openings with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds on a corner site with limewashed piers to perimeter having overgrown capping supporting wrought iron gate.
Appraisal
An hotel erected by or for James George Hewitt (d. 1913), 'Farmer [and] Shopkeeper' (NA 1911), representing an integral component of the early twentieth-century built heritage of Tuar Mhic Éadaigh [Toormakeady] with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the symmetrical footprint centred on an elegant doorcase; and the very slight diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a feint graduated visual impression: meanwhile, aspects of the composition clearly illustrate the continued linear development of the hotel by T.J. O'Toole [Tomás Ó Tuathail]. 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, thereby upholding the character or integrity of an hotel making a pleasing visual statement in a rural village street scene.