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Castlebar Technical School — Newtown

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Castlebar Technical School — Newtown
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Detached four-bay single-storey split-level technical school, built 1932-3; dated 1933, on a U-shaped plan with single-bay (three-bay deep) single-storey advanced end bays. Refenestrated. Hipped slate roof on a U-shaped plan, clay ridge tiles with copper-covered Celtic Cross finials to apexes, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber box eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast walls on rendered chamfered plinth. Square-headed central window openings in bipartite arrangement centred on cut-limestone date stone ("1933") with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement four-over-four timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement centred on square-headed window openings (end bays) with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement four-over-four timber sash windows centred on replacement six-over-nine timber sash windows having overlights. Set back from line of street in landscaped grounds with rendered piers to perimeter having concrete capping supporting replacement mild steel gate.

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