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Detached three-bay two-storey former orphanage matron's house on L-shaped plan, built c.1840, with projecting single-bay gable-fronted entrance porch to centre of front façade (southeast). Now in the ownership of Westmeath County Council and currently out of use. Pitched natural slate roof with roughcast rendered chimneystack and terracotta pots. Ornate timber bargeboards to gable-fronted section to east end and to projecting porch. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth course. Recessed smooth rendered horizontal panels/fascia to southeast and northwest facades at first floor level. Square-headed window openings with cut stone sills and metal lattice windows with timber mullions. Oculus window with leaded glass above porch to second floor. Square-headed doorcase to porch with plain cut stone surround, a battened timber door with square-headed overlight above with lattice glazing. Set back from road in own grounds with gates and boundary wall to east (15322032). Four detached single and two-storey alms houses/orphanage buildings of various styles and in various states of repair, arranged around a crescent, to the south. Now boarded-up and no longer in use.
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