Survey Data
Reg No
15310088
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
Historical Use
School
In Use As
House
Date
1780 - 1820
Coordinates
244294, 252237
Date Recorded
20/07/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey over basement house, built c.1800, with two storey return to rear (southwest). Pitched natural slate roof with a projecting eaves course and with rendered chimneystacks to either gable end. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth. Square-headed openings with one-over-one pane timber sash windows and cut stone sills. Modern external shutters to front façade windows. Square-headed doorway to centre of main façade having a cut stone block-and-start surround with a fluted lintel and an early timber panelled door. Rectangular overlight, added c.1860, having a cut stone cornice supported on elongated console brackets. Set in own grounds with outbuildings to the south. Bounded on road frontage by rubble limestone wall. Located to the southeast of Mullingar adjacent to Saunder’s Bridge (15310086).
Appraisal
An attractive house of balanced proportions. It retains its early form, together with important early features and materials. The house is distinguished by the interesting cut stone doorcase, which is of artistic merit. This doorcase is probably the result of two distinct phases. The fluted lintel suggests a late eighteenth-century date, whilst the rectangular overlight may have been added during the mid nineteenth-century. This type of overlight seems to be relatively common in Mullingar. Other examples can be found at The Greville Arms (15310107) and The Bank of Ireland, Dominick Street (15310060). Millmount House appears to be marked as a 'School House' on an 1837 Ordnance Survey Map of Mullingar, albeit with a longer return to the rear. It is possible that this structure was originally built as a school or school masters' house and that it was significantly rebuilt c. 1860 when the doorcase was altered. The present building, along with the attendant grounds and boundary wall, creates an attractive and important feature in the streetscape around Saunder's Bridge (15310086) and makes a strong positive contribution to the architectural heritage of Mullingar.