Gartlandstown Stud

Detached five-bay two-storey house, built c.1830, with modern single-storey extensions to east and west sides. Hipped natural slate roof having two rendered chimneystacks with terracotta chimney pots. Rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings with strip architraves, cut stone sills and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to ground floor openings and three-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to first floor openings. Central round-headed doorcase with cut stone block-and-start surround, timber panelled door and plain fanlight over. Set back from road in extensive grounds with rubble limestone boundary wall to front (south) and collection of contemporary rubble stone outbuildings to rear (north). Gateways to the southeast and southwest of the house, comprising pairs of roughly dressed limestone gate piers (on square plan) with pyramidal cut stone copping over and iron double-gates.

An appealing house of early nineteenth-century appearance, which retains its early character, form and fabric. This substantial house/farmhouse represents an interesting example of the adaptation of classical architecture to the vernacular tradition. The plain, if regular and balanced, front façade (south) is enlivened by the architraved surrounds to the windows and the good cut stone doorcase. This structure is very pleasantly sited on the slopes of Knockeyon Hill (north) and just to the east of the shores of Lough Derravargh and is an attractive feature on the rural landscape. The imposing boundary walls and gateways to the front (south) of this structure and the surviving rubble stone outbuildings to the rear complete this fine composition.