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The Gallery — Dunfanaghy

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The Gallery — Dunfanaghy
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Detached five-bay two-storey former fever hospital originally associated with Dunfanaghy Union Workhouse (see 40807008), dated 1845. Closed as a hospital in 1922 and later in use as a national school, c. 1930-60. Now in use as a gallery and private dwelling with two-storey addition to the rear (west). Replacement pitched slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods, projecting eaves course, and with rendered chimneystacks to the gable ends. Pitched roof to rear extension. Squared and snecked rubble sandstone walls with dressed and hammered flush ashlar block-and-start quoins to the corners. Smooth rendered walls to gable ends (north and south). Square-headed window openings with stone sills, slim rendered surrounds, dressed ashlar lintels, and replacement timber casement windows. Central square-headed doorway to the front elevation (east) having dressed ashlar lintels, stone steps, replacement timber door with overlight. Detached single-storey outbuilding to the north. Set back from road in own grounds to the south-west of Dunfanaghy with gardens to south-east. Bounded on road-frontage to the east by rubble stone boundary wall with rubble stone gate piers (on square-plan). Located adjacent to the south of the former Dunfanaghy Union Workhouse complex (see 40807008).

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