Schoolyard Theatre — Old Limerick Road

Detached five-bay two-storey former school, dated 1833, having two-bay single-storey extension to south gable and L-plan flight of external steps to north gable. Now in use as theatre. Pitched slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods, and having cut limestone chimneystacks. Half-hipped slate roof to addition. Snecked limestone walls with quatrefoil motifs to upper gable ends, and having carved limestone plaque to front, east, elevation with inscribed name and date. Roughly dressed limestone voussoirs to all openings. Square-headed window openings, slightly cambered to first floor rear, with cut limestone sills. Some six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to rear, replacement uPVC elsewhere. Brick surrounds to window openings in addition. Square-headed door opening to front elevation with replacement timber door. Elliptical-headed opening to north gable having timber battened double doors and approached by flight of cut limestone steps with replacement railings and supported by round arch. Segmental-headed door opening to first floor of south gable, now blocked up. Square-headed door openings to rear, with replacement timber doors. Pair of square-profile roughcast rendered piers surmounted by lamps with replacement gates. Site bounded by roughcast rendered walls with rendered coping. Square-headed side entrance to east wall with dressed limestone surround and timber battened door. Set back from the street.