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Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1880, now disused. Hipped natural slate roof with a central pair of rendered chimneystacks and sections of cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth course. Square-headed window openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and limestone sills. Central round-headed door opening to main elevation (southwest) with timber battened door and plain fanlight. No outbuildings, gates, railings or boundary walls. Set back from a lane, off road, in own grounds. Grounds now heavily overgrown. Located to the southwest of Granard and the northeast of Edgeworthstown.

This simple but well-proportioned house retains its early form and character. This house is typical of the ubiquitous middle-sized three-bay two-storey house that is so prevalent in rural Ireland. Its proportions are classically-inspired with a central round-headed doorway and a rigid symmetry to the front elevation. Although now in poor repair, the retention of features such as lime render, natural roof slates and timber sliding sash windows, and the lack of inappropriate materials or additions, makes this a rare example of its type in such original condition. This building, set well-back from the road, is an interesting example of its type and date and is an addition to the built heritage of the local area.