Ballyduff National School

The saved account records: Detached four-bay single-storey national school, dated 1902, on an L-shaped plan retaining original aspect with three-bay single-storey return to north-west.

The saved account records: Pitched slate roofs on an L-shaped plan with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stacks, timber bargeboards, and cast-iron rainwater goods.

The saved account records: Unpainted roughcast walls with cut-stone date stone/plaque.

The saved account records: Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and timber casement windows.

Ballyduff National School matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: This school, although now apparently disused or at least no longer in its intended use, is an attractive composition of balanced proportions that retains its original from and massing. The school is of significance as one of the earliest educational facilities surviving in the locality, and one that was established in response to the growing uneducated rural population in Waterford in the late nineteenth/early twentieth centuries. The school, which retains important salient features and materials to the exterior, contributing to the historic character of the site, forms an attractive feature in the streetscape. This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.