Creevy House

Detached three-bay two-storey house with attic level, built c. 1780, with recent single-storey extension to the rear (southwest). Half-hipped slate roof with a central pair of rendered chimneystacks. Painted roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth course, rendered block quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings with replacement double glazed timber sash sliding windows, smooth rendered reveals and with painted limestone sills. Venetian/Serlian window to centre of main elevation (northeast) at first floor level. Central round-headed door opening having cut limestone rusticated block-and-start surround with architrave and with timber panelled door. Doorcase flanked to either side by square-headed sidelights with stained glass windows and painted limestone sills. Set back from road within its own grounds, atop a steep incline. Modern boundary walls and gateway to site. Located to the northeast of Granard, close to the border with County Cavan.

This middle-sized house, of late eighteenth-century appearance, retains much of its early architectural quality despite some recent alterations. The fine doorcase and the Venetian window opening gives this building a central focus and a strong architectural character. This central focus, and the use of Venetian motifs, lends Creevy House a subdued Palladian character. The form of this house is unusual, particularly the half-hipped roofline, the narrow window openings and the proportions of the front elevation. This suggests that this building was significantly altered at some stage and, perhaps, that it was originally constructed as a three-storey building. Creevy House was the residence of a Andrew Bell, Esq., in 1824 (Pigot’s Directory) and in 1837 (Lewis Topographical Dictionary). Andrew Bell was an important person in the Granard area during the early-nineteenth century, serving as a magistrate (in Cavan) and Grand Juror of Longford (will, dated 1837). It was later the home of a John Adams, Esq., (County Magistrate) in 1881 and 1894 (Slater’s Directory). This building, although altered, makes a positive contribution to the rural landscape to the northeast of Granard and adds to the historic character of the local area.