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Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1850, with projecting flat-roofed single-bay porch to the centre of the front façade (south). Hipped natural slate roof with a pair of central rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Ruled-and-line rendered walls with raised quoins to the corners. Square-headed window openings with cut stone sills and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Round-headed opening to porch contained recessed square-headed doorcase with glazed timber door having overlight. Set back from road in own grounds with a rendered rubble limestone boundary to the south having wrought-iron gate to the centre. Located to the northwest of Loughanavally.

A modest house, of mid nineteenth-century appearance, which retains it early form, character and fabric. This building is of a type once very common in rural Westmeath. However, the majority of these structures have been heavily altered making this example at Lockardstown a valuable and increasingly rare survival. The boundary wall and the simple wrought-iron gate to the south complete the setting. This well-proportioned structure is a pleasing addition to the built heritage of the area. This house may be associated with a former corn mill, which is indicated directly to the north of this building on an 1838 map of the area.