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Attached two-storey over basement former prison governor’s house (on elongated octagonal-plan) associated with Mullingar Jail, built c.1825. Now in use as offices associated with the County Buildings (15310076) to the north. Hipped late roof with modern rooflights. Snecked limestone walls with roughly dressed limestone quoins to the corners and a projecting cut limestone sill course at ground level to the south façade. Basement façade to the south now cement rendered. Square-headed window openings with chamfered cut limestone surrounds and replacement windows. Square-headed doorway to the east face of basement façade having a modern timber door. Rubble limestone wall adjacent to the east side (having a segmental-headed arch containing a flight of steps) connects main building with a two-storey single-bay block. Snecked limestone wall runs away to the east shielding a single-storey building with a pitched slate roof to the rear (north) located to the north of the site of Mullingar Jail and to the southwest of County Buildings (15310076).
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