Catholic Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin — Newtown Cashel

Detached three-bay two-storey over basement Roman Catholic parochial house, built c. 1833 and altered c. 1860, having central projecting single-bay flat-roofed porch to the front elevation (south). Hipped natural slate roof with a central pair of rendered chimneystacks. Painted lined-and-ruled rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth course and with block-and-start quoins to the corners. Square-headed window openings having rendered surrounds, tooled limestone sills and replacement windows. Porch having entablature with cornice supported on Doric style pilasters. Round-headed doorway to front face of porch (south) having timber panelled door with petal fanlight over. Moulded limestone step to entrance. Set back from road in mature grounds shared with associated Roman Catholic church (13402113). East elevation of building faces road. Roughly dressed and squared limestone boundary wall with crenellated coping over to road-frontage (east). Rubble limestone boundary wall to north of site. Pedestrian gateway to the east comprising a pair of Roughly dressed and squared limestone gate piers (on square-plan) having modern gate. Single-bay single-storey outbuilding to the northwest, built c. 1860, having pitched natural slate roof with wrought-iron weather vane to east gable end. Roughcast rendered walls. Elliptical-headed carriage arch to south gable end with dressed limestone block-and-start surround, dressed limestone voussoirs and timber battened double doors. Complex of single-storey outbuildings to the north (not investigated) having pitched natural slate roofs. Gateway to outbuildings to the rear comprising a pair of squared and dressed limestone gate piers having carved capstones and modern replacement gate. Located to the north end of the village of Newtown-Cashel, and to the south of Lanesborough.