Assembly rooms in Shanakiel

Assembly rooms

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Detached double-height assembly room, comprising five-bay side elevations with lower single-storey side aisles and having five-bay gables, built c.1880, now disused. Pitched slate roof to main block, with single pitched roofed to lean-to side aisles. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughly dressed sandstone walls with red brick quoins. Lancet openings having red brick dressings and oculus to apex to gables. Triangular pointed openings set in pairs to side elevations and side aisles, having red brick dressings. Metal windows to openings.

Built as part of the Eglinton Asylum, later known as Our Lady's Hospital, this building forms part of a significant group of related structures. Its double height form and flanking side aisles suggest it may have been used as an assembly room. The materials utilised in its construction, including sandstone, limestone, brick and slate add colour and textural interest to the site. This large complex played a significant social role in both city and county in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 20865007

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