House in Ballynacarrigy, County Westmeath

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Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1830, with a single-bay single-storey return to rear (west). Pitched natural slate roof with rendered chimneystacks to either end and cast-iron rainwater goods. Single brick chimneystack to return. Rendered walls over rendered plinth with raised 'belt-buckle' quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings with painted stone sills, keystone detail and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Segmental-headed front door opening with block-and-start surround, plain glass fanlight over and early timber panelled double doors. Square-headed doorcase with glazed timber double-doors to north elevation. Located at west end of Ballynacarrigy at crossroad junction. Set slightly back from road with gravel forecourt to front (east)

An attractive, well-maintained and well-proportioned early nineteenth-century house occupying a prominent site to the west-end of Ballynacarrigy. It is one of the few buildings in the village that retains its early fabric and natural slate roof. The 'belt-buckle'-style quoins to the corners is a trait shared with a number of buildings in Mullingar Town and may be a local fashion at the time. This building remains an important component of the streetscape of Ballynacarrigy, terminating the Main Street to the west.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 15307010

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