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Detached seven-bay two-storey over basement castellated country house, rebuilt c.1812 (incorporating the fabric of an earlier house built c.1750), having an advanced three-storey breakfront/gate tower (offset) to the west side of centre. Turrets on octagonal plan to the corners of advanced tower and to the west end of front façade (north), turret on square plan to the east end. Now out of use, derelict and partially collapsed to the west side. Raised battlemented parapet, roof now collapsed. Machicolated battlemented parapet to advanced tower. Roughcast cement rendered walls, now failing and exposing limestone rubble construction below, with cut stone plinth to base. Clasping buttresses between bays to the east side of tower. Extensive decoration to walls with incised cross loop motifs, cut stone quatrefoils and cut stone hoodmouldings over window openings. Walls now largely overgrown with ivy. Square-headed openings to main body of structure, originally having cut stone surrounds and cut-stone tracery. Tudor Gothic-arched doorcase to front face of tower, inset within a Tudor Gothic arched recess and originally with cut stone surrounds (now gone). Pointed-arched window over doorcase to first storey, originally with Geometric tracery. Set back from road in extensive mature grounds with remains of a walled garden and ancillary structures to the rear (15402918). Located to the east of Athlone.
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