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Factory in Kildare
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Originally factory; recorded by the architectural inventory as shop/retail outlet
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Detached ten-bay double-height factory, built 1936, on a corner site on an almost-symmetrical plan comprising four-bay double-height flat-roofed central block with two-bay double-height flanking roofed flanking bays, single-bay double-height end bay to left (east) having single-bay full-height canted bay window,…

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Detached ten-bay double-height factory, built 1936, on a corner site on an almost-symmetrical plan comprising four-bay double-height flat-roofed central block with two-bay double-height flanking roofed flanking bays, single-bay double-height end bay to left (east) having single-bay full-height canted bay window, single-bay double-height end bay to right (west), and ten-bay double-height range to rear to south. Renovated, c.1950, with six-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting entrance block added to centre. Part refenestrated, c.1990. Now in commercial use. Flat-roofed to original entrance block behind parapet walls. Materials not visible. Gable-ended (saw-tooth) roofs to range to south with corrugated-asbestos. Concrete ridge tiles. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Flat-roofed to additional entrance block. Bitumen felt. Rendered and roughcast walls. Painted. Rendered parapet walls to original entrance block with moulded rendered coping. Square-headed window openings. Stone sills. Some original iron casement windows. Replacement uPVC casement windows, c.1990, to remainder. Oculus widows to gables to range to south. Fixed-pane iron windows. Square-headed door openings. Timber panelled double doors. Overlights. Set back from road in own grounds on a corner site. Section of cast-iron railings to front (north) on rendered plinth wall having rendered piers.
This building, originally built as a wallpaper mill, is of social and historical significance as one of the earliest remaining industrial complexes in the locality, and one that was traditionally a major employer in the town. Renovated and extended over the course of the twentieth century, the building nevertheless retains most of its original form and is an imposing landmark on the corner site formed by the meeting of Turnpike Road to the west and Academy Street to the south.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 11817030

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