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Ballycastle National School

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Ballycastle National School
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Detached eight-bay single-storey boys' national school, built 1892, on a symmetrical plan. Closed, 1970. Now disused. Pitched slate roof on collared timber construction with clay ridge tiles centred on red brick Running bond chimney stack having lichen-covered chamfered capping supporting terracotta pots, and no rainwater goods surviving on exposed timber rafters retaining cast-iron downpipes. Fine roughcast walls on rendered chamfered plinth. Square-headed window openings centred on rusticated cut-limestone date stone ("189-") with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows. Square-headed flanking door openings with overgrown thresholds, and concealed dressings with no fittings surviving. Set back from line of road in unkempt grounds with piers to perimeter having lichen-covered truncated pyramidal capping supporting flat iron gate.

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