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Newbridge Library — Athgarvan Road

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Newbridge Library — Athgarvan Road
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Detached eleven-bay two-storey International Modern-style library, built 1936, on a corner site retaining early fenestration comprising single-bay two-storey entrance bay to centre facing to north with single-bay two-storey flanking bays and three-bay two-storey flanking elevations facing to north-east and to north-west having single-bay two-storey advanced end bays. Part refenestrated, c.2000. Hipped roofs behind parapet walls with slate. Clay ridge tiles. Red brick chimney stacks. Timber eaves. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls to entrance bay. Painted. Rendered profiled stepped parapet wall over. Roughcast walls to flanking elevations. Painted. Rendered dressings including strips to ends forming panels, bands to eaves and profiled parapet walls. Roughcast walls to remainder. Painted. Square-headed window openings. Stone sills. Red brick (painted) dressings. Original iron casement windows. Square-headed openings to entrance bay in square-headed recessed panels having rendered advanced surrounds. Replacement glazed timber double doors, c.2000. Original iron casement windows over. Square-headed window openings to remainder. Stone sills. Replacement uPVC casement windows, c.2000. Set back from line of road on a corner site. Roughcast boundary wall to front with sections of iron railings over having rendered piers with iron folding gates.

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