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Cavan Number One National School — Farnham Street

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Cavan Number One National School — Farnham Street
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Detached three-bay two-storey school of formal classical design with single-bay single-storey end wings, built c.1800. Extended to the rear c.1950 and 2006. Hipped slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks marking centre bay, parapets to wings with stone coping, cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast-rendered walls with sandstone plinth course, having segmental-arched recesses around ground level windows, entrance door and wing windows. Six-over-six sliding sash windows to ground floor, six-over-three to first floor and tripartite timber Wyatt windows to wings with central six-over-six sliding sashes and two-over-two side-lights. Shallow segmental cobweb timber fanlight over moulded entablature on scrolled brackets and pilasters with recent double-leaf door. Sandstone step to entrance with recent limestone threshold step. Set back from road behind recent steel railing on historic rubble-stone plinth wall.

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