House in Knockbrack, County Meath

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Detached three-bay two-storey roughcast rendered house, built c.1870. Two-storey return and single-storey extension to rear. Round-arched door opening with spoked fanlight and panelled door. Timber sash windows with stone sills. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and terracotta pots. Enclosed to front with roughcast rendered walls and rendered pier having a cast-iron gate. Three single-storey stone and roughcast rendered outbuildings with pitched and lean-to corrugated-iron and slate roofs to site.

The simple architectural form of this farmhouse is enhanced by the retention of many interesting features and materials. The modest form and scale of the building is representative of traditional farm houses in Ireland. The related outbuildings enhance the setting of the house.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 14305014

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