library/archive — MacBride Road West

Detached seventeen-bay single- and two-storey yellow brick reading and recreation rooms, dated 1886, on a symmetrical plan comprising three-bay two-storey gable-fronted central block with two-bay two-storey flanking bays having cast-iron open veranda to east, three-bay single-storey gabled advanced bays and two-bay single-storey end bays. Part refenestrated, c.1995. Now disused. Hipped roofs with slate (gabled to central block and to advanced bays behind red brick parapet walls). Clay ridge tiles. Yellow brick chimney stacks. Cast-iron rainwater goods on red brick eaves band. Yellow brick Running bond walls. Red brick dressings including sill courses, dentilated eaves band and parapet walls to gables. Cut-granite date stone and plaque. Cut-stone coping to gables. Square-headed openings. Stone sills. Cut-stone chamfered lintels. Original 6/6 timber sash windows to east. Replacement uPVC casement windows, c.1995, to remainder. Oculus openings to gables. Red brick surrounds. Decorative cast-iron open veranda to flanking bay to east. Square-headed door opening. Tongue-and-groove timber panelled door. Sited in Curragh Camp complex and road fronted.