Donegal County Museum — High Road

Detached five-bay two-storey union workhouse "Front Block", built 1842-4; dated 1843; opened 1845, on a H-shaped plan with single-bay two-storey gabled advanced end bays. Renovated, 1990-1, to accommodate alternative use. Pitched slate roof on a H-shaped plan centred on gablets, clay ridge tiles, cut-limestone chamfered coping to gables on margined tooled cut-sandstone kneelers, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on exposed timber rafters with cast-iron downpipes. Repointed coursed rough cut rubble stone walls on cut-sandstone chamfered cushion course on plinth with margined tooled cut-limestone flush quoins to corners; rendered surface finish to rear (west) elevation. Tudor-headed central door opening below inscribed cut-sandstone plaque ("1843") with cut-limestone threshold, and cut-sandstone surround having chamfered reveals with hood moulding framing timber panelled double doors. Square-headed flanking window openings with cut-limestone sills, and cut-sandstone surrounds having chamfered reveals with hood mouldings framing timber casement windows. Square-headed window openings (first floor) with cut-limestone sills, and cut-sandstone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing timber casement windows. Square-headed window openings to rear (west) elevation with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows. Set back from line of street on a slightly elevated site.