Clondrisse House

Detached two-bay two-storey over basement house built c.1800. Extended, c.1885, with addition of substantial two-storey extension to the north. Double pitched natural slate roof having rendered chimneystacks, cast-iron rainwater goods and timber bargeboards with timber finials to gable ends at entrance front (east). Roughcast rendered walls over rubble limestone walls having brick dressings and cut stone dressings to openings. Render now removed to a number of elevations. Square-headed window opening with cut stone sills and variety of six-over-six pane, two-over-two pane and Wyatt windows. Box bay window to southeast corner of ground facade with cut stone sill and triple one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to front (east) having leaded hipped roof over. Square-headed door opening to northeast corner with moulded stone surround having glazed timber double doors with stained glass panels. Cut stone steps to entrance front. Substantial complex of outbuildings to the (south) comprising main two-storey dressed limestone outbuilding with square-headed openings and segmental-headed carriage arches having hipped natural slate roof over, flanked by single-storey buildings (15402037). Single-storey range of rubble limestone outbuildings with brick dressings to the openings having natural slate roof located adjacent to the house, at basement level, to the north. Main gates and attendant gate lodge to the north (15402002). Set back from road in extensive grounds to the northwest of Killucan.

An appealing house of two distinct periods, which retains its early form, character and a great deal of its early fabric. The unusual variety of materials and window forms give this structure a rather distinctive appearance. The later nineteenth century work obscures the form of the earlier building making the original form hard to decipher today. The later work probably dates to the same time as the gate lodge (15402002) to the north was built. Clondrisse House forms the centrepiece of an interesting collection of related structures along with the lodge and entrance gates to the north (15402002) and the fine outbuildings to the south (15402030) and to the north and remains an integral component of the architectural heritage of Westmeath. Clondrisse House was associated with the Pratt and Winter Families (of Killynan House (15402001) in the nineteenth century. It was the residence of a Rev. Francis Winter (died c.1847), a vicar at St. John the Baptist's Church of Ireland church (15401308), which is located a short distance to the north, during the first decades on the nineteenth century. This suggests that this building may have been originally built as a rectory, although its form today would suggest otherwise.