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Community centre in Fairfield Demesne

Community centre
Community centre in Fairfield Demesne
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Community centre in Fairfield Demesne is clad in corrugated iron but wears carved wooden pinnacles. Somewhere between ordering the walls and finishing the gables, somebody seems to have said, ‘And why shouldn’t a shed marry into money?’

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Detached single-storey corrugated-iron hall, built c.1930, comprising three-bay block, with second block to north gable end and flush with same and presenting gable-fronts to long elevations that to west being three-bay and that to east two-bay, and with lower lean-to additions to south-west and south-east corners. Now disused. Pitched corrugated-iron roof with decoratively carved timber bargeboards to gables with pinnacles and finials, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Corrugated-iron sheeted walls on concrete foundations. Square-headed window openings with two-over-two pane horned timber sliding sash windows with timber sills. Square-headed door openings with battened timber doors. Set within grounds of former Fair Field country house. Gateway and gate lodge immediately to north.
This building, in use as a community hall until recently, serves as a good example and a rare survivor of the age of corrugated-iron clad buildings. Such buildings are increasingly scarce. However this example demonstrates the way in which the material was combined with standard architectural components, including timber sash windows, to good effect. It is well proportioned and architecturally complete.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 41306021

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Pictures: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; Anthony Foster, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0; Eric Jones, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; This file is from the Mechanical Curator collection , a set of over 1 million images scanned from out-of-copyright books and released to Flickr Commons by the British Library. View image on Flickr View all images from book View catalogue entry for book ., Wikimedia Commons · Public domain; D Gore, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Pamela Norrington, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; Oliver Dixon, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

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