Gorey Technical School — The Avenue

Archival Description [Demolished 2009]: Detached seven-bay two-storey technical school, built 1932, on a rectangular plan centred on single-bay full-height breakfront; three-bay two-storey side elevations. Hipped fibre-cement tile roof with concrete or terracotta ridge tiles, rooflights to front (east) pitch, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on overhanging timber boarded box eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Part creeper- or ivy-covered roughcast walls on rendered battered plinth. Square-headed central door opening in square-headed recess with concrete step threshold, and concealed dressings framing timber panelled double doors having overlight. Square-headed window opening in tripartite arrangement (first floor) with concrete sill, and concealed dressings framing fixed-pane fittings. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and rendered "bas-relief" surrounds framing three-over-three timber sash windows having overlights. Square-headed window openings to side elevations with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows having overlights centred on three-over-three timber sash windows having overlights. Interior including (ground floor): central vestibule; square-headed door opening into hall with glazed timber panelled double doors having sidelights on panelled risers below overlight; hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors, staircase on a dog leg plan with cast-iron balusters supporting carved timber banister terminating on cast-iron newels, and carved timber surrounds to door openings to landing framing timber panelled doors. Set back from line of road in landscaped grounds on a slightly elevated site with creeper- or ivy-covered piers to perimeter having stepped capping supporting iron double gates.