Creeve Lodge

The saved account records: Detached five-bay two-storey house, built c. 1770 having slightly projecting single-bay breakfront to the centre of the main elevation (southeast) and two-bay two-storey return to rear (northwest).

The saved account records: Possibly formerly in use as a mill manager’s house (c. 1838

The saved account records: Ordnance Survey first edition six-inch map).

The saved account records: Multiple-bay single-storey outbuilding to rear (northwest) having pitched corrugated-metal roof with rendered chimneystack and rubble stone masonry walls, partially rendered to the southeast end.

Creeve Lodge matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: This interesting house, of mid-to-late eighteenth-century appearance, retains much of its early form and character. The central breakfront and the pitched slate roof with chimneystacks to either gable end suggest it could be quite early. The plain front elevation is enlivened by the fine cut stone block-and-start doorcase with architecture, which as an artistic element to the otherwise plain front elevation. This doorcase is finely carved and of an unusual design, not common in County Longford (although a similar doorcase is to be found on Main Street, Granard (13305026). The heavy keystones articulate the… This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.