Survey Data
Reg No
15317053
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Historical
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1750 - 1760
Coordinates
218923, 238240
Date Recorded
19/08/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Detached five-bay two-storey house, built 1762, having a later single-bay gable-fronted porch, c.1880, to the front of the main façade (north) having decorative timber barge boards and an overhanging roof supported on timber brackets. Pitched natural slate roof with chimneystacks to either gable end and with cast-iron rainwater goods. Ruled-and-line rendered walls to front façade with roughcast rendered walls to other elevations. Square-headed window openings with cut stone sills and with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to the ground floor openings and four-over-four pane windows over to the first floor. Square-headed doorway to the projecting porch having a glazed timber door set in glazed surround. Cut stone date stone inscribed ‘James Clibborn biult this house anno domini 1762’, having a cut stone hoodmoulding over, above porch. Set back from road in mature grounds to the east side of Moate. Walled garden to the southeast side of house having a segmental-headed entrance with a wrought-iron gate. Complex of two-storey outbuildings, a stable block and a coach house attached to the west end and arranged around a courtyard to the southwest (15317054). Main entrance gates to the north comprising a pair of roughcast rendered gate piers (on square-plan) supporting wrought-iron double gates.
Appraisal
A well-proportioned and elegant mid-Georgian house, which retains its early form and character. This noteworthy structure is enhanced by the retention of all its important early fabric, including a fine doorcase now hidden behind the later porch. The cut stone date plaque above the porch is a noteworthy feature. The inscription to this date plaque is curiously misspelled, which must have been an infuriating mistake for the original owner James Clibborn. This building forms the centerpiece of an important collection of related structures along with the walled garden to the southeast and the complex of outbuildings (15317054) to the west and the southwest. It is rare to find such a complete demesne within a town setting. Moate View was built before much of the town of Moate as it stands today and is of immense historical value. This building is an important component of the built heritage of Westmeath and is a feature building within the town.