house

Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1850, having a single-bay gable-fronted entrance porch to the centre of the front façade (east). Single-storey extension to south side with gabled slate roof. Now out of use and derelict. Pitched natural slate roof with a single rendered chimneystack and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth course with raised quoins to the corners. Square-headed window openings with rendered reveals, cut stone sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed doorcase, set into round-headed opening to porch, having timber panelled door with sidelights and an overlight. Set back from road in mature grounds with single-storey roughcast rendered outbuilding to the south having a pitched natural slate roof. Rendered boundary wall, rendered gate piers (on square-plan) and a wrought-iron gate to the road frontage (east).

An appealing mid nineteenth-century farmhouse, of modest architectural aspirations, which retains its early form, character and fabric despite being out of use. The form of this building is of a type once very common in rural Westmeath. However, very few buildings of this type now survive in as good condition as this example at Ballycloghduff, making it an increasingly rare survival. The outbuilding to the south of this house appears to predate the existing dwelling and was probably originally associated with an earlier house on this site. This outbuilding, along with the simple wrought-iron entrance gate to the east, complete the setting of this unassuming composition.