Outbuilding in Slane

Detached three-bay two-storey outbuilding, built c. 1760. Hipped tile roof. Roughcast rendered walls with a limestone eaves course. Dressed limestone to north gable with a cut stone blind arcade. Window opening in arcade with red brick reveals and a timber sash window, inserted c. 1890. Outbuilding to site. Pair of square-profile limestone piers with limestone cap stones to site.

This outbuilding formerly related to the house to the site, and is linked by to the house by a screen wall. The architectural blind arcading of the south gable complements the setting of the house, and is a unifying features of the group. This outbuilding was built as part of the formally planned eighteenth-century estate village as devised by Viscount Conyngham, who stipulated the form and materials to be used in the construction of the village. This outbuilding together with the main house, gates and related outbuilding form an interesting architectural group, which is repeated by on the remaining three sides of the square.