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Detached L-plan two-storey house, built c.1880, having six-bay east and five-bay south elevations, with lower single-bay two-storey addition to west gable. Also in use as public house. Pitched slate roofs having red brick chimneystacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth render quoins and plinth. Square-headed window openings having patent reveals, and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows with ogee horns. Two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to public house (ground floor of south elevation). External security bars to ground floor windows. Square-headed door opening to north-east elevation having timber panelled door and two-pane overlight. Entrances to public house comprising square-headed door openings to both elevations of south-east corner, that to east elevation having half-glazed timber battened door, that to south elevation having recent timber door, both with sidelights, risers and over-lights. Ancillary three-bay single-storey outbuilding with attic storey attached to west gable, having pitched slate roof, rubble stone walls, and square-headed openings with timber fittings. Single-bay single-storey outbuilding to west vertex of yard, with hipped roof, curved rubble stone walls incorporated into rubble stone boundary walls enclosing yard. Situated directly onto pavement to street.

This substantial building forms a triangular block at the junction of three roads in the village of Essexford, at the boundary of counties Monaghan and Louth. It is a long established public house, previously also a shop, and typically of the late nineteenth century, it also provided accommodation for the family and employees. The simple well-proportioned forms and patina of age make it a notable landmark in the area. The building played and continues to play an important role in giving the small village of Essexford a somewhat urban character.