house

Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1810. Hipped natural slate roof with cement rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls over plinth course. Square-headed window openings with cut stone sills and timber sash windows. Central round-headed door opening with spoked fanlight over and a timber panelled door. et back from road with mature garden to front elevation (south). Complex of rubble limestone outbuildings to the rear (north) having pitched natural slate roofs. Rubble limestone boundary wall to road frontage (west) with rendered gate piers supporting cast-iron gates. Located to the southeast of Glassan.

A fine and typically well-proportioned middle-sized late-Georgian house, which retains its early form, fabric and character. The front façade is enlivened by the retention of the timber sliding sash windows and by the customary fanlight over the main door. The collection of outbuildings to the rear, the boundary walls and the cast-iron gates complete the setting of this fine composition. This house may have been originally built by the owner of a corn mill, now demolished, which is indicated directly to the south of this house on an 1838 map of the area. This mill was in the ownership of a Richard Bartles at this time and was demolished pre-1913. It remains an interesting addition to the architectural heritage of Westmeath.