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Detached four-bay two-storey house, dated 1897, having a flat-roofed single-bay porch to front elevation with segmental-headed opening. Pitched slate roof with two central diagonal brick chimneystacks and with terracotta ridge capping. Painted roughcast rendered walls with render platband at first floor level. Carved limestone date plaque under window opening above porch at first floor level. Square-headed window openings with painted stone sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Recessed square-headed door opening to porch with timber panelled door, tiled threshold and limestone steps. Set back from the street with rubble limestone boundary walls to road-frontage with a dressed limestone gate pier (on square-plan) with cut limestone capstone over to the south end of boundary wall. Pair of cut limestone gate posts and wrought-iron gate to entrance. Located to the south end of Ballinalee, adjacent to road junction.

This well-maintained late nineteenth-century building retains its early form and character. The form and size of this building is typical of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century county town buildings in Ireland. It retains its salient fabric including timber sash windows and a cut stone date plaque. The diagonal brick chimneystacks are an unusual feature and give this building and interesting roof profile. The proportions of this building and the position of the chimneystacks and porch, suggest that it was extended by a bay to the south at some stage. The simple boundary walls, the gate pier, cut stone gate posts and the flat bar wrought-iron gate complete the setting and add to this composition.