Glascarn House

Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1870. Hipped natural slate roof having two rendered chimneystacks to centre with terracotta chimney pots over. Ruled-and-line rendered walls over projecting plinth with raised quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings with cut stone sills, rendered reveals and replacement windows. Central round-headed door opening having cut stone block-and-start surround. Replacement timber door with replacement fanlight over. Substantial complex of rubble stone outbuildings to rear (west), arranged around a central courtyard, having pitched natural slate roofs, square-headed openings and segmental-headed carriage arches. Set back from road in mature grounds with a tree-lined avenue running away to the southeast. Bounded on road frontage (south) by a dressed limestone plinth wall having limestone coping and cast-iron railings over. Decorative cast-iron gates having cast-iron gate posts to main entrance to the southeast.

A well-appointed middle-sized, mid-to-late nineteenth-century house with a substantial complex of associated outbuildings to the rear. The house is well balanced and retains a good block-and-start doorcase. It has recently undergone some alterations, resulting in the loss of important fixtures and fittings to the openings, but retains its early from and character. The form and appearance of this house is quite reminiscent of a parochial house dating to the same period. The highly appealing cast-iron gates and railings to the southeast are of artistic merit and also look vaguely ecclesiastical in character. The fine complex of contemporary outbuildings to the rear adds to this composition. This fine complex, together with the good boundary wall and entrance gates, is an attractive feature to the west of Rathconrath and is an integral component of the architectural heritage of Westmeath.