Gorey District Hospital — McCurtain Street

Detached five-bay (six-bay deep) two-storey hospital, built 1936, on a neo-Palladian plan centred on single-bay two-storey pedimented breakfront with five-bay single-storey wings on cranked plans terminating in four-bay single-storey "pavilions"; five-bay two-storey rear (north) elevation. Closed, 1986. Renovated, 2002; 2005, to accommodate alternative use. Hipped slate roof on a quadrangular plan centred on pitched (gabled) slate roof (breakfront); pitched slate roofs (wings) with hipped slate roofs ("pavilions"), clay ridge tiles, slightly sproketed eaves, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on slightly overhanging timber boarded box eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Red brick English bond walls on red brick header bond chamfered cushion course on red brick English bond plinth; granite ashlar surface finish (frontispiece) on cut-granite chamfered plinth with rusticated cut-granite piers to ends centred on rusticated cut-granite piers (breakfront) supporting "Cyma Recta" or "Cyma Reversa" open bed pediment. Square-headed central door opening approached by flight of three cut-granite steps with granite ashlar voussoirs centred on panelled keystone framing timber panelled double doors having overlight. Square-headed window opening in square-headed recess (first floor) with cut-granite sill, and cut-granite monolithic surround framing replacement uPVC casement window. Square-headed flanking window openings with cut-granite sills, and granite ashlar voussoirs framing replacement uPVC casement windows. Square-headed window openings (remainder) with cut-granite sills, and red brick voussoirs framing replacement uPVC casement windows. Set back from street in landscaped grounds with rendered piers to perimeter on rendered chamfered plinths having concrete capping supporting wrought iron-detailed double gates.