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Saint Patrick's College — Maynooth

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Saint Patrick's College — Maynooth
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Attached three-bay single-storey gable-fronted Gothic Revival engine house with attic, c.1870, retaining original aspect with shallow segmental-headed integral carriageway, five-bay single-storey side elevation to north-east and single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to left having single-bay single-storey flat-roofed return to rear (north-west) with red brick chimney stack on a polygonal plan. Gable-ended (gable-fronted) roofs with slate. Clay ridge tiles. Cut-stone coping to gables. Cast-iron rainwater goods on eaves course. Flat-roofed to return to north-west. Materials not visible behind parapet wall. Irregular coursed squared limestone walls. Cut-stone dressings including clasping buttresses to corner to south-east and intermediary buttresses along side elevation to north-east. Roughcast walls to return. Unpainted. Cut-stone coping. Red brick tapered chimney stack on a polygonal plan with stringcourses and moulded coping. Paired trefoil-headed window openings (single to porch). Cut-stone surrounds. Fixed-pane diamond-leaded iron windows. Quatrefoil window opening to gable in cut-stone surround having hood moulding over. Fixed-pane diamond-leaded iron window. Shallow segmental-headed integral carriageway. Cut-stone block-and-start surround. Tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors with overlight. Shallow segmental-headed door opening to porch. Cut-stone block-and-start surround. Timber panelled door. Set in grounds shared with Saint Patrick’s College.

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