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Saint Joseph's Hospital — Blackboy Road

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Saint Joseph's Hospital — Blackboy Road
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Attached nine-bay three-storey men's block, c. 1900, set perpendicular to the main hospital block to the east. It is almost identical to the women's block and both are joined by a five-bay three-storey wing. M-profile natural slate roofs with cast-iron rainwater goods and sprocketed and stepped eaves. A red brick chimneystack to the west section and a limestone chimneystack to the north and south side elevations of the eastern section. The seven-bay section has rough-hewn rubble limestone walls and squared limestone quoins with a single-storey three-sided canted bay to the north and south elevations. Square-headed window openings throughout with tooled limestone surrounds and original twelve-over-eight timber sash windows to the first floor eight-over-eight to the second floor and uPVC to the ground floor. The connecting five-bay wing has a flat roof and rough-hewn squared and snecked limestone walls over plinth course. Square-headed window openings to both elevations with aluminium windows and a square-headed door opening to the south elevation with a classical carved limestone surround and a glazed timber-panelled door. The easternmost nine-bay section has rock-faced squared and snecked limestone ashlar walls over plinth course with a pair of single-storey three-sided canted bays to the east elevation and a blind central bay. Square-headed window openings with smooth limestone surrounds and sills and twelve-over-eight timber sash windows to the first floor only, uPVC windows to the ground and second floors, with a central round-arched niche to the first floor of the east elevation having a carved limestone surround and pediment above. A further gable-fronted outbuilding is located to the north forms part of the later additions to the hospital complex.

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