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Castledermot Vocational School — Abbey Street

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Castledermot Vocational School — Abbey Street
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Detached three-bay single-storey vocational school, built 1936-7, on a rectangular plan centred on single-bay single-storey breakfront. Sold, 1976, to accommodate alternative use. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks on buttressed bases having concrete capping supporting terracotta pots, rooflights to front (west) pitch, and cast-iron rainwater goods on exposed timber rafters retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered walls on tuck pointed rubble stone battered base. Square-headed central door opening with step threshold, and lichen-spotted lintel supporting cut-limestone panels framing timber panelled double doors. Grouped square-headed flanking window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing two-over-two timber sash windows having horizontal glazing bars. Set back from road in landscaped grounds.

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