house

Detached three-bay two-storey house on L-shaped plan, built c. 1905, with advanced gabled bay to the west end of the front elevation (south). Now disused. Hipped slate roofs with two moulded red brick chimneystacks. Painted roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth with painted red brick quoins to the corners. Square-headed window openings with painted brick block-and-start surrounds. Painted sills and timber frame casement windows with multi-paned top panels, some boarded up. Square-headed boarded up entrance openings with painted brick block-and-start surrounds. Set back from road in overgrown landscaped grounds to the south of Longford Town centre. Cast-iron gateposts with wrought-iron double leaf gates to driveway and random rubble stone boundary wall to the east.

An attractive modestly-scaled house, which retains its early character, form and much of its original fabric despite its now derelict condition. Although it has a traditional form, the influence of the late nineteenth/early twentieth century Art and Crafts movement is apparent in the use of red brick dressings to the openings and the small paned timber casement windows. Sympathetically restored, this interesting building would make a positive contribution to the architectural heritage of Longford Town, adding to the main approach into the town from the south. The simple gates and the boundary wall add to this composition.