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Michael Walsh Asylum — College Street

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Michael Walsh Asylum — College Street
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End-of-terrace three-bay two-storey rubble stone almshouse, dated 1875, retaining most original aspect. Now in use as apartments. One of a terrace of five. Pitched (shared) slate roof with clay ridge tiles, limestone ashlar chimney stacks, cut-limestone coping, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods, c.2000. Random rubble stone walls with cut-limestone quoins to corner, and cut-stone courses to each floor. Pointed-arch window openings to ground floor, square-headed window openings to first floor with cut-limestone sill courses, block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals, and 2/2 timber sash windows with horizontal bias to glazing pattern. Pointed-arch door opening with cut-limestone block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals, replacement tongue-and-groove timber panelled door, c.2000, and overlight. Set back from line of road in shared grounds with random rubble stone boundary wall to forecourt having limestone ashlar piers with profiled polygonal capping, and sections of cast-iron railings.

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