Tranquilla House (Monaghan (Muineachán))

 house, listed building / architectural heritage, 1875_construction

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Detached three-bay two-storey house, dated 1875, with multi-phase, two-storey lean-to extensions to rear effectively adding further pile to rear south elevation of building, and with single-pitch two-storey outbuilding to west side of rear elevation having late twentieth-century conservatory to east side of south elevation. House has hipped slate roof with lead ridge, ogee-profile cast-iron rainwater goods on brick eaves course, and two brick chimneystacks arranged on ridge either side of entrance bay with tall, decorative octagonal clay pots. Rear elevation and all extensions have fibre-cement tiled roofs with late twentieth-century rooflights to rear elevation of house roof. Punch-finished random ashlar walling to façade and side elevations of house with ashlar sandstone block-and-start quoins, projecting sandstone platband between floor levels and projecting sandstone plinth. Segmental-headed main entrance doorway with fluted and chamfered timber frame, leaded sidelights flanking four-panel timber door with chamfered detail around panels, brass door furniture and glazed fanlight over with inscription on glass 'Tranquilla 1875'.