Survey Data
Reg No
15401404
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Previous Name
Clonmaskill
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1780 - 1800
Coordinates
262605, 262903
Date Recorded
23/11/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house with attic level, built c.1790. Pitched natural slate roof with rendered chimneystacks to either end and modern rooflights. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth with raised block quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings with cut stone sills and replacement timber casement windows. Small square-headed attic window openings to haunches of gables (east and west). Central round-headed doorcase with cut limestone surround with Cavetto cornice to lintel, timber panelled door having plain fanlight over. Set back from road in own grounds with complex of outbuildings to the rear (north). Main entrance gates and boundary wall to south.
Appraisal
An attractive house of balanced Georgian proportions, which retains its early form and character. The fine and delicately carved cut limestone doorcase is an interesting feature of artistic merit that helps to elevate this house above many of its contemporaries. This house was the residence of Laurence Lloyd Henry, Esq in 1837 and of Jane M. Henry, c.1870, who owned 52 acres of land. This fine middle-sized composition remains an important element of the architectural heritage of Westmeath with the outbuildings to the rear (north) and the boundary wall to the front (south) completing the setting.