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Detached four-bay single-storey former school, built c.1870, with advanced gable-fronted bays to either end and single-bay single-storey lean-to entrance porches to north and south side elevations. Now in use as a private dwelling. Hipped and pitched artificial slate roof with a single rendered chimneystack to the centre. Decorative timber bargeboards to gable-fronted bays and some remaining sections of cast-iron rainwater goods. Cement rendered walls with ashlar lining. Segmental-headed openings with replacement windows. Cut stone plaques to gable ends indicate separate girls and boys' entrances, boys' to north and girls' to south. Cut stone plaque to centre reads 'Balrath National School'. Square-headed doorcases to west-facing elevations of porches at either end, now with replacement doors. Set back from road in own grounds with low rendered stone wall with iron railings over to road-frontage (west). Cast-iron double-gates to centre.
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