Hotel in Rathedmond, County Sligo

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Attached four-bay three-storey stone hotel, built c. 1845, with three-storey, flat-roofed, rendered extension to rear. M-profile artificial slate main roof, artificial ridge and hip tiles, centrally-placed unpainted rendered chimneystack, moulded cast-iron rainwater goods on projecting stone eaves course on plain block corbels. Felt covering to flat-roofed extension. Coursed rock-faced ashlar limestone walling with polished ashlar quoins on tooled stone plinth. Square-headed window openings with dressed stone block-and-start surrounds and stone sills, replacement uPVC casement windows, c. 1995. Semi-circular-headed door opening, painted and heavily moulded architrave, painted timber six-panel replacement double doors, c. 1995. Three stone steps at entrance. Set back from roadside behind concrete car parking bays and footpath.

The Clarence Hotel is a long-established business located on one of the town's busiest traffic junctions. The excellent stonework is well handled and contributes to the robust presence the building creates in the streetscape.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 32007020

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