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Saint Patrick's College — Maynooth

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Saint Patrick's College — Maynooth
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Attached ten-bay two-storey dormitory building with attic, c.1880, comprising six-bay two-storey central block with two-bay two-storey gabled advanced flanking bays having single-bay two-storey recessed lower end bay to left (north-west) with single-bay single-storey linking entrance bay to left (north-west). Now in use as exam hall. Hipped roof with slate (gabled to advanced bays; gable-ended to recessed end bay). Clay ridge tiles. Cut-stone coping to gables with cross finials to apexes. Profiled cast-iron rainwater goods on eaves course. Flat-roofed to linking entrance bay. Materials not visible behind parapet walls. Irregular coursed squared rubble sandstone walls. Cut-stone dressings including stringcourse to first floor. Pointed-arch window openings (paired). Cut-stone block-and-start surrounds. 1/1 timber sash windows with fixed-pane overlights. Pointed-oval windows openings to gables. Cut-stone surrounds. Fixed-pane timber windows. Paired pointed-arch window openings to recessed end bay in cut-stone block-and-start surround. Fixed-pane window (possibly with stained glass). Pointed-arch door opening to linking entrance bay. Cut-stone block-and-start surround. Diagonal tongue-and-groove timber panelled door. Leaded overlight. Set in grounds shared with Saint Patrick’s College. Tarmacadam forecourt to front (south-west).

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