Clonwhelan House

Detached five-bay two-storey over basement house, built c. 1775, having single-bay three-storey lean-to extension to rear (northwest). Pitched natural slate roof with roughly dressed and squared limestone chimneystacks (partially rendered) to gable ends (southwest and northeast) having cut stone coping over. Raised cut stone verge to southwest gable end. Some remaining sections of cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with tooled limestone sills, having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to first floor and at basement level and nine-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to ground floor openings. Central round-headed door opening with cut limestone block-and-start doorcase, replacement timber panelled door and spoked fanlight. Doorcase approached by a flight of cut limestone steps flanked with wrought-iron railings having wrought-iron cross finials over. Set back from road in extensive mature grounds to the southeast/east of Edgeworthstown, adjacent to the border with County Westmeath to the east and south. Roughly coursed limestone boundary walls with crenellated limestone coping over to the south and southeast; rubble limestone boundary walls to site. Complex of single- and two-storey outbuildings (13402005) to the rear (northwest). Main entrance gate to the south of house comprising a pair of roughly coursed limestone gate piers (on square-plan) having roughly dressed limestone capstones and with hooped wrought-iron flat bar gates.