Middleton Park House

For the Lutyens house in Oxfordshire, see Middleton Park, Oxfordshire.

The entrance to Middleton Park House, in Co. Westmeath

Middleton Park House is a mid 19th-century country house in Castletown-Geoghegan, County Westmeath

It stands on a gentle hill on a kilometre-long avenue looking towards Lough Ennell. It is a detached six-bay two-storey building with the central two bays slightly projecting from the façade. It has a slate roof and a projecting single-storey limestone Ionic entrance portico. Other features of the house are its under-floor heating system, stone bifurcated staircase leading to the Gallery Landing and three-storey-high atrium lantern located in the Main Hall. At one end of the house is a cast-iron conservatory, one of only a few Richard Turner conservatories to be found in Ireland.[1]

After many years of disrepair, the house was restored in mid-2007 and opened to the public as a commercial entity specialising in corporate events and private weddings and as a restaurant. This venture closed in 2016,[2] with the house rapidly falling back in to disrepair. Restoration work to return it to use as family home began in 2019 and has been featured on an RTÉ TV series Great House Revival.[3]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference MPH was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Ryan, Orla (21 March 2016). "Hotel tells couple 'to make alternative arrangements' for wedding less than two months away". thejournal.ie. Retrieved 4 March 2021.
  3. ^ Fitzpatrick, Ellen (21 March 2020). "The Great House Revival finale dives into an 1850s mansion restoration". EVOKE. Archived from the original on 19 August 2021.