In the stable yard of Ballinlough Castle, County Westmeath, a two-storey worker’s house at the west gable end of the south range. Built c.1775, it possesses an advanced pedimented breakfront with ashlar detailing and round-headed niche to the centre of the ground floor flanked to either side by a square-headed window openings with a single square-headed opening to the centre of first floor.
Gorgeous for a mere worker’s house. What would have been in the niche/alcove?
Thanks for your comment. I suspect there was never anything places in the niche: its function was simply, but effectively, decorative…