Annebrook House Hotel

Annebrook House Hotel is a hotel in Mullingar, County Westmeath, Ireland.^[1]

Annebrook House Hotel
General information
Type	Hotel
Classification
Location	Mullingar Town Park
Address	Austin Friars Street
Town or city	Mullingar, County Westmeath
Country	Ireland
Coordinates	53°31′30.1″N 7°20′18.9″W
Year(s) built	c. 1810
Opened	9 February 2007; 18 years ago (2007-02-09)
Cost	€20 million
Design and construction
Developer	Berty Dunne
Other information
Number of rooms	93
Website
annebrook.ie

History

Origins

The original Annebrook House is a Georgian house built in c. 1810 by the Westmeath Board of Guardians as a hostel for visiting clergy. It was later the residence for the county surgeon John O'Connell and then the home of Medical Officer of Health (MOH) Dr Hugh O'Neill and his family.^[2][3] It one of the oldest buildings still standing in Mullingar.^[4]

The property was auctioned in early April 2001 with Berty Dunne, a hotelier from County Kildare, making the winning bid.^[5] In October 2002, it was announced that a planning permission application was sent to Westmeath County Council to construct a 49-bedroom hotel with a restaurant and a further 44 aparthotel units alongside renovating the original house on the 1.9 acres (0.77 ha) site.^[6] By July 2004, the house was being extensively renovated. The hotel is located within Mullingar Town Park.

Opening

Berty Dunne was originally aiming for the hotel to open by Christmas 2006 but the opening was delayed until February 2007 at a total cost of almost €20 million.^[7] The hotel business was registered on 9 February 2007 as "Annebrook House Hotel Limited".^[8]

In 2019, the hotel won the Hotel of the Year Irish Hospitality Award.^[9] In 2022, the owners of Annebrook House Hotel announced that they had purchased the old Dunnes Stores premises on nearby Pearse Street a number of years prior and planned to expand there and build 50 additional bedrooms and a leisure centre on the ground floor.^{[10][needs update]}