Survey Data
Reg No
15311005
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Previous Name
Monte Video
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1815 - 1825
Coordinates
244639, 252920
Date Recorded
04/09/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay single-storey over a raised basement house, built c.1820, having a (raised) projecting single-bay single-storey flat-roofed porch at ground floor level to the centre of the front façade (west). Hipped slate roof with slightly sprocketed eaves and having two central rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls with square-headed window openings having stone sills and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to the ground floor and replacement timber casement windows at basement level. Square-headed doorway to the north face of porch having a block-and-start surround, fluted lintel, a timber panelled door and a spoked/radial overlight. Later square-headed window opening to the front face of porch (west). Porch reached by a wide flight of cut stone steps (over basement) flanked to either side by wrought-iron railings. Set back from road in own grounds to the east side of Mullingar with rubble stone boundary wall to the front (west). Now set in modern housing estate.
Appraisal
An interesting and well-balanced early nineteenth-century house, which retains its early character, form and much of its early fabric. The front façade of this house is enlivened by the well-detailed entrance porch, which retains a good quality doorcase with a radial overlight over. Top-level entry houses of this type are rare in rural Ireland, being much more common in the suburbs of Dublin and the larger cities. This early building is now largely hidden away in a modern housing estate to the east side of Mullingar, adding a historical feel to its largely modern surrounds. The rubble stone boundary wall completes the setting.