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Detached former five-bay two-storey union workhouse administration block, built 1841, with advanced gable-fronted bays to either end of front façade and three gables at roof level to the central section of front façade (southeast). Now in use as a hospital. Pitched natural slate roofs with overhanging eaves, timber bargeboards to gable-fronted sections and a pair of red brick chimneystacks. Constructed of coursed rubble limestone over projecting cut stone plinth with a cut limestone string course at first floor level and dressed limestone quoins to the corners. Cut stone date plaque over door, dated 1841. Square-headed window openings with cut stone sills, two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows, chamfered cut limestone surrounds to first floor openings and brick dressings to ground floor openings. Cut limestone hoodmouldings over windows to projecting end gables at first floor level and to windows flanking central doorcase. Central pointed segmental-headed doorcase having chamfered cut limestone surround and timber door with hoodmoulding over. Coursed rubble limestone walls to either side link central building to the west and a two-bay single-storey Tudor Gothic former gate lodge to the northeast. Extensive former workhouse complex to the rear (15309018). Located to the north of Mullingar.
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