House in Ballycomoyle, County Westmeath

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Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1830. Single-storey lean-to extension to the west side and complex of outbuildings to the rear (north). Hipped natural slate roof with overhanging eaves, two central red brick chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth course. Square-headed window openings having cut stone sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Central round-headed doorcase with cut limestone block-and-start doorcase having replacement glazed timber door with a plain fanlight over. Set back from road, at a right angle, with rubble limestone boundary wall to road-frontage (east). Located to the north of Castlepollard.

An appealing early nineteenth-century house, of balanced late-Georgian proportions, which retains its early form and character. This simply detailed house retains the majority of its original features, including a good cut limestone doorcase that helps to give this building a certain gravitas in the landscape above its modest size. Doorcases of this nature are a common feature in north Westmeath and are characteristic of many of the buildings in Castlepollard to the south. The rustic boundary wall to the east completes the setting and adds to this interesting but unassuming structure.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 15400313

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