Old Shop Rathlee, Rathlee, Co Sligo
Conversion of a house to a B&B, workshop to a professional kitchen, and creation of a staff studio apartment.
2242 · Sligo County Council · Lodged 8 February 2022
- Reference
- 2242
- Authority
- Sligo County Council
- Register status
- Withdrawn
- Type
- PERMISSION
- Received
- 8 February 2022
- Residential units
- 1
- Floor area
- 1 m²
Summary
AI-generatedThe development includes changing the use of an existing house to a B&B and converting a street-front workshop into a professional kitchen with a mezzanine storage level. It also involves converting first-floor storage into a staff studio apartment, extending a coal shed for tea room toilets, and maintaining the retail shop.
Generated from the description above by an AI model and may contain mistakes. The council’s description is the authoritative record.
Official record
Development description
Development consisting of maintenance of the existing shop as a retail unit to let, to repair and extend the roof over the shop to join the main house, relocate the existing front garden wall inwards to allow the street footpath to continue across the front of the site, to mark the existing parking to the front to formalise two car spaces plus one accessible space. Application for tea-room street furniture to the front, conversion of the existing street front workshop to a professional kitchen, adding 0.89m to the roof level to allow for a mezzanine storage level, maintaining the rear ground floor storage and conversion of its first floor storage to studio apartment for staff, extending the coal shed to be toilet facilities for the tea rooms. Change-of-use of the existing house to a b&b plus staff facilities to include staff room, showers, kitchenette, and all ancillary site works including new percolation areas, rainwater harvesting and drainage.
Built & sold
What happened next
Beyond the decision: whether this development was built, and what property here has sold for.
Recent sales nearby
within 500 m| Address | Date | Price | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hillview, Rathlee, Easkey | Apr 2025 | €275,000 | 82 m |
Nearby properties, not this site — a guide to local values.
Sources: Building Control Management System (commencement notices) and the Residential Property Price Register, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Records are matched to this application by location and may not be exhaustive; always confirm against the official source before relying on them.
Key dates
Timeline
- Application received8 February 2022
- Further information requested1 April 2022
- Decision due21 December 2022
- Application withdrawn20 December 2022
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