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Portlaoise Garda Síochána Station — Old Abbeyleix Road

sports hall/centre/gymnasium
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Portlaoise Garda Síochána Station — Old Abbeyleix Road
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Detached multi-bay two-storey gymnasium, built c.1910, now disused. Pitched roof with original red synthetic tiles and terracotta ridge tiles, to single-storey section, raised ventilation ridge to two-storey section with timber louvres. Cast-iron rainwater goods to exposed timber rafter fact. Machine-made red brick walling laid in English garden wall bond. Coursed rough-hewn limestone wall to north and west below first floor sill level and concrete base. Square-headed window openings, concrete sills, some multi-pane steel windows, some boarded up. Square-headed door opening with double-leaf vertically-sheeted timber doors.

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