Strand House

Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1885, with projecting gable-fronted central bay to entrance façade (southeast). Canted bay windows with hipped natural slate roofs to east end of southeast elevation and to southwest side elevation. Hipped slate roof with two rendered chimneystacks to centre. Smooth rendered walls over raised plinth with raised quoins to corners. Ruled-and-line rendered finish to canted bay windows. Segmental-headed window openings with concrete sills and replacement windows. Segmental-headed door to projecting bay with rendered surround and recessed entrance. Timber pilasters with console brackets supporting cornice and segmental-headed overlight. Timber panelled door, with cast-iron doorknocker, flanked by stained glass sidelights. Set within mature garden with gravel driveway to south. Main entrance to the southeast of the house through rendered gate piers supporting cast-iron gates with decorative finials.

An attractive middle-sized house, which retains its early charm and character despite recent alterations resulting in the loss of the early windows. The canted bay windows and the well-detailed doorcase help to elevate this unassuming structure above others of a similar date and size in Westmeath. The stucco mouldings to the corners and to the door surrounds add a further decorative aspect to this late nineteenth -century building. This house remains and appealing feature in the landscape to the west of Mullingar Town.