Survey Data
Reg No
31311006
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Historical, Social
Original Use
Farm house
In Use As
Farm house
Date
1860 - 1865
Coordinates
120385, 268215
Date Recorded
05/01/2011
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, built 1862, on a T-shaped plan with single-bay two-storey projecting end bay; four-bay (south) or single-bay (north) two-storey side elevations. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Renovated, ----. Hipped slate roof on a T-shaped plan with clay ridge tiles, paired rendered central chimney stacks on rendered bases having stringcourses below corbelled stepped chamfered capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on cut-limestone eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Repointed rubble limestone walls originally rendered on cut-limestone chamfered cushion course on snecked limestone plinth with margined tooled cut- or hammered limestone flush quoins to corners. Square-headed central door opening with repointed cut-limestone voussoirs framing glazed timber panelled door having overlight. Paired square-headed window openings (first floor) with cut-limestone sills, and repointed cut-limestone voussoirs framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and repointed cut-limestone voussoirs framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds with piers to perimeter supporting replacement spear head-detailed mild steel double gates.
Appraisal
A farmhouse erected on a site obtained (1857) by Courtney Kenny (1781-1863) of Ballinrobe (NUIG) representing an integral component of the mid nineteenth-century domestic built heritage of south County Mayo with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact plan form centred on a restrained doorcase; and the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression. 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: however, the removal of the surface finish has not had a beneficial impact on the character or integrity of a farmhouse having historic connections with the Kenny family including Stanhope William Fenton Kenny JP (1827-1910) and Stanhope Lloyd Kenny (1874-1945) of Ballinrobe (see 31215014).