Laundry in Nenagh North, County Tipperary

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Detached seven-bay two-storey former prison laundry, built c.1840, with lean-to addition to south gable. Hipped slate roof with cut limestone chimneystack and cast-iron rainwater goods. Coursed snecked limestone walls. Square-headed openings with dressed limestone block-and-start surrounds, windows being six-over-six pane and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to gables and ground floor of front and rear walls, with louvred openings to first floor with cut limestone sills. Square-headed timber battened door with overlight.

This building forms part of a former prison complex, designed by John B. Keane. Its subtle design and scale are notable, as is the variation of window size between the floors. This feature, as well as the retained timber louvres, are testament to the functional design of the laundry building.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 22305112

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