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Birr Union Workhouse

workhouse administration block
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Birr Union Workhouse
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Detached U-plan four-bay two-storey former workhouse master's house, built c.1845, with adjoining block to east. Now a detached house. Set within its own site. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and limestone coping to raised parapets of gables. Snecked limestone walls with tooled quoins, plinth and string course. Cut limestone window surrounds with uPVC replacement windows. Half-dormer windows to first floor. Tooled stone sills. Dormer window to rear slope of roof. Tudor arched door opening with cut stone surround and hoodmoulding. Timber battened door, flanked by windows with hoodmoulding. Rendered wall to front site with ashlar gate piers and cast-iron gates.

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