Glenview House

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Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1890, having projecting gabled end-bays to front (east) elevation, end-bay to north returning to rear, and having lean-to roofed and full-height extensions to rear. Slate roof, pitched to end bays to front, and hipped to rear of south end bay. Timber bargeboards, cast-iron rainwater goods, red brick eaves supports forming bracket course and polychrome brick chimneystacks. Polychrome brick chimneystack to rear of north end bay, red brick chimneystack abutting wall to rear. Red brick walls, laid in Flemish bond, with yellow brick block-and-start quoins, and yellow brick string courses over ground floor and first floor windows, and having red brick plinth course. Harl-rendered walls to south of rear, painted brick to north of rear. Gauged-brick segmental-headed window openings to first floor of end bays to front, and gauged-brick square-headed window openings elsewhere, paired to rear of north elevation, having yellow brick surrounds and masonry sills. Gauged-brick segmental-headed window openings to rear having masonry sills. All window openings boarded up. Gauged-brick three-centred-arch door opening to front with yellow brick surround and timber panelled door, with sidelights and fanlight boarded up, opening onto masonry step. Gauged-brick square-headed door opening to rear, with timber panelled door. Outbuildings to rear, with house set within grassy terraced grounds.

The gabled end bays add interest and individuality to the façade of this house and contribute, along with the central chimneystacks, to the symmetrical appearance of the building. The significant use of polychrome brick is indicative of its late nineteenth-century construction date, when fashions dictated the use of multiple colours to enliven simple facade detailing. Although currently not in use, the house was one of the early suburban residences of Monaghan Town, and retains a sense of subtle grandeur.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 41400976

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