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Cork and Ross Family Centre — Paul Street

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Cork and Ross Family Centre — Paul Street
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Corner-sited semi-detached six-bay three-storey former school, with five-stage entrance tower to the east, built 1879, as a group with the adjoining building to east. Now in use as offices. Pitched slate roofs with red brick chimneystack, and having cast-iron ridge cresting to tower. Red brick walls with limestone eaves course, continuous sill courses and plinth. Segmental-arched openings to ground floor, paired square-headed openings to first floor, and paired pointed arch openings to second floor, all having carved limestone hood mouldings and dressings. Fixed timber windows to ground floor, and timber sash windows to upper floors. Pair of timber panelled doors, set in segmental-arch opening with ashlar limestone dressings, toplights, fanlight, and wrought-iron fanlight guard. Wrought-iron railings set on limestone plinths to site, and ashlar limestone steps leading to entrance doors.

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