House in Beaulieu

Attached two-storey house, built c. 1840. Now forming single dwelling with house to south. Rectangular-plan, two-storey single-bay gable-fronted north block with oriel window to east, single-storey extension to south, c. 1970, with sunroom to south elevation east block and forming connection with five-bay single-storey house to south, c. 1880; canted porch to south house; single-storey flat-roofed extension to south of north block with balcony at first floor level; attached to house to north. Hipped and pitched slate roofs, clay ridge and hip tiles, red brick and smooth rendered corbelled chimneystacks, fretted painted timber bargeboards to gable, cast-iron gutters to overhanging eaves, circular cast-iron gutters. Unpainted pebbledashed-rendered walling, painted smooth rendered plinth course. Square-headed window openings to ground floor, painted smooth rendered soffits and reveals, painted tooled stone sills, painted timber six-over-six (north), four-over-four and two-over-two (oriel window); tripartite window to ground floor east elevation; uPVC windows to south; lattice timber tracery windows to west elevation south house; Square-headed door opening to east, painted smooth rendered surround, painted timber vertically-sheeted door; main entrance door now to canted porch. Set in own grounds bounded by rubble stone walls, overlooking channel at River Boyne; attached to north to Queensborough House; situated on estate of Beaulieu House.

Although modest in appearance this house is an intriguing structure. Much extended, it has grown organically over many decades. Originally part of the Beaulieu Estate and overlooking the Boyne River, it may have been associated with the Custom and Excise Service or have been the summer home of a Drogheda merchant.