Callan Union Workhouse — Clonmel Road

Union workhouse complex, built 1840-1; dated 1841; opened 1842, including: Detached five-bay two-storey "Front Block" on a H-shaped plan with single-bay two-storey gabled advanced end bays. Renovated, ----, to accommodate alternative use. Pitched slate roof on a H-shaped plan centred on gablets, ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stacks having iron-covered stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, decorative timber bargeboards to gables on timber purlins, and cast-iron rainwater goods on exposed timber rafters with cast-iron downpipes. Repointed coursed or snecked rough cut limestone walls on cut-limestone chamfered cushion course on plinth with margined tooled cut-limestone flush quoins to corners. Tudor-headed central door opening, inscribed margined tooled cut-limestone block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals with shared hood moulding framing timber panelled double doors. Square-headed flanking window openings with cut-limestone sills, and margined tooled cut-limestone surrounds having chamfered reveals with shared hood mouldings framing timber casement windows having cast-iron lattice glazing bars. Square-headed window openings (first floor) with cut-limestone sills, and margined tooled cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing replacement casement windows. Square-headed window openings (west) with cut-limestone sills, and repointed red brick block-and-start surrounds framing replacement casement windows. Interior remodelled, ----. Set in relandscaped grounds.