The Old Dispensary, house in County Meath

What is recorded here

The Old Dispensary in Stalleen puts a bright red-brick porch against grey stone, right at the Donore junction. It's the house equivalent of your mother wearing a scarlet coat to collect you: you can pretend you haven't seen her, but she's already waving.

Detached four-bay two-storey house, built c.1880, with gabled porch. Hipped slate roof with render brick chimneystacks. Rubble limestone walls with dressed stone quoins having red walls to porch. Red brick surrounds and limestone sills to window openings. Ranges of red brick and rubble stone outbuildings to the rear, ranged around a central courtyard.

The building is a colourful addition at the main road junction in Donore village. The red brick contrasts with the rubble limestone adding textural interest to the site. The building retains many interesting features and materials, such as the slate roof and related outbuildings to the rear.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 14402001

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