hotel — Tullamore Road

End-of-terrace Tudor Gothic style eight-bay two-storey (with attic level) former hotel, built c.1830, on a curved\crescent plan. Central two-bay gable-fronted section flanked by lower single-bay dormer windows (three to north end). Now in use as petrol station, post office, adult education office and private flats. Hipped natural slate roof (half-hipped to south end) with rendered chimneystacks, raised stone verges and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with rendered quoins to corners, smooth cement rendered to east end elevation. Square-headed window openings with timber sash windows to north end of main façade, replacement windows elsewhere. Window openings to main façade have cut stone sills and cut stone hoodmouldings over. Windows paired to central bay. No hoodmouldings over window openings to end elevations. Paired square-headed doorcases to centre with chamfered cut stone surrounds, cut stone hoodmouldings over and replacement timber doors. Square-headed doorcase with chamfered cut stone surround, cut stone-hoodmoulding over and replacement steel door to north end elevation, modern square-headed carriage-arch to south end of main façade. Located in a prominent position in the streetscape to the east end of Kilbeggan at junction of main roads to Dublin and Tullamore. Petrol pumps to forecourt.