Brooklawn

Detached seven-bay single- and two-storey over basement house, c.1800. Now in ruins. Roof now gone. Rendered walls over rubble stone construction. Ruled and lined. Unpainted. Section of yellow brick construction to first floor. Cut-stone course to eaves. Square-headed window openings. Cut-granite sills. Yellow brick dressings. Fittings now gone. Round-headed opening to ground floor. Yellow brick dressings. Fittings now gone. Interior now in ruins with remains of brick barrel- and groin-vaulted rooms. Set back from road in own grounds. Overgrown grounds to site.

Brooklawn (House), which is now in ruins, is of social and historical importance, representing the middle-size dwellings of the prosperous class in Rathangan in the late eighteenth/early nineteenth century. Composed of graceful proportions, much of the original form of the house is now obscured by overgrown grounds, while most of the original features and materials are now gone. The interior retains important barrel- and groin-vaulted ceilings however, built of brick, which are of considerable technical or engineering merit. Set back from the line of the road, the house is a picturesque or ‘Romantic’ landmark in the locality.