Donaghmore Parochial Hall — Castlefinn

Detached four-bay single-storey former first level school, built c. 1860, having projecting single-bay gable-fronted porches to either end of the front elevation (north), stepped chimneystack to centre rising over front wall of building, and with cut stone bellcote to the east gable end. Now in use as a parochial hall (since c. 1960) associated with the adjacent Church of Ireland church (see 40840002) to the west. Pitched natural slate roofs with projecting rafter ends, clayware ridge tiles, decorative pierced timber bargeboards to the gable ends of the main body of the building (east and west) and to the front faces of porches, gable-fronted cut stone bellcote to the east gable end having cut stone coping with finial to gable apex, and with stepped squared rubble stone chimneystack to the centre (aligned with front wall of building) having ashlar quoins to the corners and ashlar skews and coping, and with terracotta chimneypot over. Squared and coursed\snecked rubble stone masonry over chamfered cut stone plinth course, and with flush ashlar sandstone block-and-start quoins to the corners of main body of building and to porches. Clasping ashlar sandstone buttresses to side elevations of porches having cut stone coping over. Tripartite square-headed window openings to the front elevation (north) having flush ashlar sandstone block-and-start surrounds, chamfered sandstone sills and mullions, ashlar sandstone lintel, and with cast-iron lattice\diamond-pane windows with battened timber shutters over. Pointed-arched window openings to the gable ends (east and west) having cut stone surround, cut stone Y-tracery, cut stone sills, and with cast-iron lattice\diamond-pane windows. Blank rear elevation (south). Tudor-arched/pointed segmental-headed doorway to the front face of each porch (north) having cut sandstone plinth blocks to base, chamfered ashlar sandstone surround, and with battened timber door. Rectangular recess over doorway to each porch with modern timber sign to porch to the east, sign to porch to the west now missing. Set slightly back from road in own grounds to the west of Castlefinn and adjacent to the east of St. Patrick’s Church of Ireland church (see 40840002). Bounded on road-frontage to the north by rubble stone boundary wall having rendered coping and wrought-iron railings over. Rubble stone walls to other site boundaries. Pedestrian gateway serving porch to the east having a pair of cast-iron gate posts supporting wrought-iron gate. Wrought-iron flat-bar field gates to the east end of boundary wall. Overgrown yard to the rear (south).