Millarstown House

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Semi-detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1780. Hipped artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Pebbledashed walls over smooth rendered plinth course with smooth rendered margins to corners. Square-headed window openings with replacement timber casement windows. Central round-headed door opening (west) with glazed timber double doors having carved stone doorcase comprising Doric columns supporting an open bed pediment over with spoke fanlight. Set back from road in mature grounds with complex of outbuildings to the south and southwest. Early rubble limestone outbuilding abuts house to rear (west) having pitched slate roof and brick dressings to openings.

A middle-sized house, of balanced Georgian proportions, which retains most of its early form and character despite recent alterations to the roof structure and windows. The large expanse of blank walling to the front façade lends this house quite a robust and sturdy appearance and may indicate a relatively early date. The fine cut stone Doric doorcase is an important feature of artistic merit that helps to distinguish this otherwise plain building. The glazed timber doors are probably a late nineteenth-century addition but they blend in well with the earlier doorcase. The fine outbuilding adjoining to the west completes the setting of this appealing composition.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 15402025

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