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Dundalk Grammar School — The Crescent

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Dundalk Grammar School — The Crescent
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Detached three-bay single-storey with attic brick former doctor's residence, built c. 1835, now in use as school building. Pedimented breakfront to east. Pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, red brick corbelled chimneystacks, fractables with roll-top limestone coping, cast-iron gutters on painted timber fascia, circular cast-iron downpipes. Red brick walling laid to Flemish bond, raised plinth, limestone roll-top raking cornice to pediment. Square-headed window openings, limestone sills, painted timber one-over-one and two-over-two sliding sash windows; block-and-start limestone jambs, flat-arched lintels, splayed sills, chamfered soffits and reveals and painted timber casement windows to east. Square-headed door openings; block-and-start limestone jambs, flat-arched lintel, chamfered soffit and reveals to east; painted timber doors, plain-glazed overlights; limestone steps to east. Set within grounds of former Louth County Infirmary; red brick boundary wall running southwards from south-east corner, saddle-coping, square piers, cast-iron gates; random rubble boundary wall to north.

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