Ormonde College — Ormonde Road

Detached seven-bay two-storey limestone ashlar Jacobean Revival model school, built 1853, on a U-shaped plan comprising five-bay two-storey recessed main block with single-bay two-storey projecting end bay to left having single-bay double-height gabled breakfront, and single-bay two-storey gabled projecting end bay to right. Converted to use as technical school, 1939. Pitched slate roofs on a U-shaped plan behind parapets (gabled to projecting end bays) with clay ridge tiles, cut-limestone chimney stacks having grouped (three- and four-part arrangement) chamfered flues, and concealed cast-iron rainwater goods. Broken coursed tooled cut-limestone walls with limestone ashlar dressings including quoins to corners, cut-stone panel to gable to end bay to left, and parapet (battlemented to end bay to left) with triangular or semi-circular gablets having polygonal finials to apexes. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals, one-over-one timber sash windows, and timber casement windows to ground floor end bays having hood mouldings over. Tudor-headed door opening with two cut-limestone steps, cut-limestone block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals, hood moulding over, and timber panelled door having cut-limestone date stone/plaque over on consoles. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set back from line of road in own grounds with cut-limestone boundary wall to perimeter of site having cut-limestone coping, wrought iron railings over having Fleur-de-Lys finials, tooled limestone ashlar piers having cut-limestone capping, and wrought iron double gates having finials.