Otway House

Detached three-bay two-storey rectory, built 1884, with canted bay to end of front elevation and lower two-storey return to rear. Now in use as private house. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystack. Roughcast rendered walls with render string course and plaque. Segmental-headed openings to first floor with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows having render panels beneath. Timber panelled door set in square-headed opening with slated canopy. Multiple-bay two-storey outbuilding with lean-to extension, hipped slate roof, roughly-dressed limestone walls and square- and segmental-headed openings, some with brick surrounds. Main entrance comprises ornate cast and wrought-iron gates set in decoratively-rendered flanking walls and piers and rubble limestone boundary walls. Square-plan roughly-dressed limestone piers to side gate.

The façade of this former rectory is enlivened by the bow and the segmental-headed windows. The house retains many interesting features and materials such as the slate roof and timber sash windows. The date stone is particularly notable given that these are relatively rare in Ireland. The decorative gates were acquired at the Castle Otway auction in the mid-twentieth century.