Leixlip Castle

Detached six-bay single-storey rubble stone mono-pitched outbuilding, c.1780, retaining original aspect. Mono-pitched roof with slate. Rendered coping to ridge. No rainwater goods on exposed timber eaves. Broken coursed squared rubble stone walls. Square-headed openings. Yellow brick dressings. Timber fittings. Set back from road in grounds shared with Leixlip Castle. Stone cobbled lane to front (north-west).

This outbuilding is an attractive long, low rubble stone range that forms an integral component of the Leixlip Castle estate. The building is of some social and historical significance, attesting to the expansion of the estate in the late eighteenth century. The rubble stone construction is a feature shared in common with further buildings in the grounds and is representative of the traditional economic method of building at the time. Well-maintained, the outbuilding retains much of its original form and character. Also of interest is the stone cobbling to the laneway to north-west, which has elsewhere been replaced or covered with tarmacadam.