outbuilding

Detached five-bay two-storey stable block, c.1850, on a rectangular plan. Pitched slate roof with ridge tiles, coping to gables, rooflights to front (south) pitch, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Creeper- or ivy-covered rendered battered walls with drag edged tooled hammered limestone flush quoins to corners. Pair of square-headed door openings with drag edged tooled cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds centred on drag edged tooled cut-limestone keystones framing glazed timber doors. Square-headed window openings with drag edged tooled cut-limestone sills, and red brick block-and-start surrounds framing timber windows. Square-headed loops (first floor) with drag edged tooled cut-limestone surrounds framing cement rendered infill. Towpath fronted.

A stable block representing an integral component of the mid nineteenth-century built heritage of County Offaly with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form centred on restrained Classical doorcase demonstrating good quality workmanship in a silver-grey limestone; the battered silhouette; the neo-medieval loops lighting the accommodation set aside for stable hands; and the high pitched roof.