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Detached six-bay two-storey former school house on L-shaped plan, dated c.1857, with an advanced two-bay gable-fronted section to the south end of front elevation (west) and a two-bay gable over main entrance towards centre of north end of the front façade (west). Currently in use as a private house. Pitched natural slate roofs with overhanging eaves, two cut limestone chimneystacks to the centre and cast-iron rainwater goods. Timber finials to gable ends and to dormer attic/gable-fronted sections. Coursed squared limestone walls with dressed limestone quoins to corners and a projecting chamfered dressed limestone string course at first floor level. Square-headed window openings having cut stone sills, cut limestone dressings and replacement timber sliding sash windows. Road headed opening to gable over doorcase. Pointed-arched doorcase to the north end of advanced gable-fronted section having replacement timber door set in chamfered cut limestone surround with carved inscription reading "Collinstown Schools Erected 1857 the Gift of God - Deade Smythe Esq." Cut stone plaque to gable-fronted section. Located towards the south end of Collinstown with single-bay outbuilding to the rear (east). Set back from road in own grounds and bounded on street frontage by rubble limestone boundary wall.
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