Sheastown House

Detached three-bay two-storey house, c.1875, possibly incorporating fabric of earlier house, pre-1703, with three-bay single-storey lean-to projecting open porch to centre ground floor having flanking canted bay windows, and two-bay two-storey return to south-west. Renovated. Hipped slate roof on an L-shaped plan (lean-to to porch extending over ground floor on chamfered timber posts having carved timber spandrels forming trefoil-headed arrangement, decorative timber bargeboards, and cast-iron rainwater goods on exposed timber eaves) with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods on overhanging rendered eaves. Unpainted replacement rendered, ruled and lined walls. Square-headed window openings (including to canted bay windows) with cut-limestone sills, and six-over-six timber sash windows having timber casement windows to canted bay windows. Square-headed door opening with timber panelled door having overlight. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set back from road in own grounds.

A well-composed middle-size house exhibiting modest architectural design aspirations with the primary concession to visual 'effect' centred on the ground floor where an enriched porch displays high quality carpentry. Having been reasonably well maintained the house retains the essential composition attributes together with much of the early fabric both to the exterior and to the interior. Possibly originally having connections with a corn mill (pre-1840; demolished, pre-1899-1902) marked nearby on archival editions of the Ordnance Survey the house remains of additional importance for the associations with the Shee (O’Shee), the Butler, the Costelloe, the Perrolt, and the Cuffe families.