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Dundalk Grammar School — The Crescent

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Dundalk Grammar School — The Crescent
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Detached five-bay three-storey school, dated 1817. U-plan, return to north with extensions to west, single-storey porch to east, extended to west, 1868, extension to north-east. Hipped slate roofs, clay ridge tiles, unpainted roughcast corbelled chimneystacks, moulded cast-iron gutters to overhanging eaves, circular cast-iron downpipes, cast-iron water tank to west extension with plaque "T CRENDON & CO., DROGHEDA IRON WORKS 1868". Unpainted roughcast rendered walling. Square-headed window openings, stone sills, painted smooth rendered soffits and reveals, painted timber six-over-six, three-over-six (second floor), twenty-over-one (east elevation, return and west extension), one-over-one (west extension to return) and horizontally-paned two-over-two (ground floor east elevation) sliding sash windows; segmental-headed window openings to south and north elevations, tripartite windows with twenty-over-one panes flanked by eight-over-one. Segmental-headed door opening to south elevation, painted smooth rendered soffits and reveals, painted timber two-panel double doors, plain-glazed sidelights and fanlight, painted stone threshold. Set in mature grounds, surrounded by related school buildings, avenue running eastwards to entrance. three-bay single-storey with attic gate lodge to east with extension to . Pitched slate roof, brick chimneystack, overhanging eaves, replacement uPVC windows and doors.

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