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Attached three-bay (northwest) and two-bay two-storey (southeast) houses, built c.1820 and c.1850, now in single ownership. Structure to southeast later in use as a shop. Projecting gable-fronted porches to the front elevation (northeast). Pitched corrugated metal roof to three-bay house with rendered chimneystack to northwest end; pitched natural slate roof to two-bay house with raised verge to northwest end and rendered chimneystacks to either end. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth with ruled-and-line rendered finish to southwest gable end. Square-headed window openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and cut stone sills. Iron security bars to ground floor openings. Fixed two-pane window to ground floor window to southwest end of two-story house (former shopfront). Square-headed door openings to projecting porches having timber sheeted doors with overlights and timber bargeboards over. Complex of rubble limestone outbuildings to the rear (northwest) and two-storey rendered outbuildings to the south. Roughcast rendered boundary wall to north. Stone gate piers to south give access to rear yard. Located at a rural cross road junction at the east end of Loughanavally.

A charming group of early-to-mid nineteenth-century houses, which retain their early form, proportions and character. The visual impact of these buildings is enhanced by the retention of the majority of the early fabric. The building to the northwest appears to have been constructed first, c.1820, with the two-bay structure built to the southeast, c.1850. The corrugated metal roof to the building to the northwest suggests that it may have been previously thatched. Buildings of this nature were very common features in rural Westmeath but are now becoming increasingly rare due to modern alteration, making these examples at Loughanavally important survivals. This grouping of buildings represents a pleasant feature in the landscape to the east end of Loughanavally, adding a picturesque element along the main Mullingar to Athlone road. The rubble limestone outbuildings to the rear and the stone gate piers complete the setting of this appealing composition.