Clonaleenaghan House

Detached five-bay two-storey house, built c. 1720, attached to three-bay two-storey house to north c. 1840. Rectangular-plan, lean-to returns to west. Pitched artificial tiled roof to main house, red brick corbelled chimneystacks c. 1970, cast-iron gutters on corbelled eaves course, circular cast-iron downpipes; pitched slate roof to north house, clay ridge tiles, cast-iron gutters supported on brackets. Roughcast rendered walling to main house, painted smooth rendered quoins and plinth; painted roughcast-render to north house, painted smooth rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings, painted smooth rendered projecting reveals and soffits, granite sills, painted timber six-over-six sliding sash windows, exposed sliding sash boxed to main house; paired timber six-over-six sliding sash windows to north house. Segmental-headed door opening, painted smooth rendered surround, replacement timber door, sidelights and fanlight, entrance accessed by stone steps; round-headed door opening to north house, painted brick surround, replacement timber glazed door and fanlight c. 1970. Random rubble stone walled garden to west, bellcote to north-west corner. Random rubble stone and roughcast-rendered outbuildings to north-west surrounding grassed yard; pitched slate roofs, square-headed openings, stone sills to windows, all openings with painted timber vertically-sheeted doors and window shutters. House and outbuildings set within own extensive grounds.

Clonaleenaghan House is an attractive complex of structures comprising eighteenth- and nineteenth-century dwellings, walled garden and outbuildings. The retention of original features such as the exposed sash boxes indicate an early date. The structures have retained their original balanced composition and form and they play a positive role in the built heritage of County Louth.