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University of Galway — University Road

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University of Galway — University Road
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Detached nine-bay three-storey H-plan faculty building, built c.1890, having three-bay projecting bays to east and west ends of front elevation, six-bay side elevations, and mid-twentieth-century addition to east end of rear. Hipped slate roof to main block, having rendered chimneystacks, battened timber-clad overhanging eaves with carved timber brackets, and cast-iron rainwater goods with decorative brackets. Painted roughcast rendered walls with moulded render plinth, having render sill courses to ground, first and second floors. Camber-headed window openings having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows with twelve-pane overlights, including offset stairwell to west end of rear elevation. Camber-headed openings to entrances having recessed render surrounds, with exception of rear entrance, double-leaf carved timber panelled doors with twelve-pane overlights over carved timber entablature comprising dentillated cornice, decorative frieze and architrave, tooled limestone steps to middle bays of projections to front elevation. Located within the grounds of the University of Galway campus.

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