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Detached thirteen-bay two-storey museum, built 1853-7, now also in use as offices. M-profile hipped slate roof having rooflights to ridges, ashlar granite chimneystacks with carved cable moulding detail, brackets and dentillated string course, projecting eaves having Portland stone eaves course with billet moulding, foliate carved panels and carved brackets to frieze, and cable moulding cornice below scalloped eaves band. Ashlar granite to walls having projecting granite plinth course with carved Portland stone capping quatrefoil vent openings set in circular chain panels, Portland stone quoins having Corinthian pilasters with cable moulding detail to shaft, Portland stone string courses, having foliate and guilloche carvings, some with cable moulding detail, and circular panels with coloured marble inlay. Round-headed window openings, arranged singly, and in groups of two, three or four, having carved Portland stone archivolts with foliate and cable moulding carvings and Corinthian pilasters, those to first floor having foliate carvings to shafts, carved Portland stone sill courses with foliate carvings to first floor, and cable moulding to ground floor openings. Stepped reveals to first floor openings, inset Portland stone hood mouldings. Ogee-headed open balustrade risers to first floor, those over door set on projecting balcony with foliate and eagle detail to carved Portland stone brackets, timber framed casement windows throughout. Square-headed door opening set in round-headed recess having Portland stone ordered archivolt with alternating cable moulding, nailhead moulding and foliate detail and Corinthian pilasters, Portland stone tympanum having cross-hatched and shamrock carving with carved Trinity College crest flanked by rose and portcullis, Portland stone keystone detail over, having foliate carving, decorative copper lamp and double-leaf timber panelled door with decorative panels and brass door furniture approached by nosed granite diminishing steps. Elaborate stair hall internally, having polychrome brick domes over, T-plan Portland stone stairs with green Connemara marble handrail, Caen stone arcaded lining to walls having red and white stone voussoirs and columns of green, red, yellow and black polished stone, primarily Irish limestones.
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