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Chemistry Building — Trinity College

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Chemistry Building — Trinity College
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Attached L-plan seven-bay three-storey over basement college building, built 1885, with four-bay return and five-bay two-storey projection at rear (east) elevation. Hipped slate roof with carved granite eaves course, ashlar granite chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods, flat roof to projection. Ashlar granite walls, rusticated plinth course having vents with decorative cast-iron grates, carved impost course to first floor, cornice and entablature over ground floor, string courses. Carved granite panel having carved pediment with foliate and anthemion leaf detail to front (west) elevation. Square- and round-headed window openings, arranged in pairs, with continuous carved granite sill courses, stepped reveals to ground and first floor window openings, and timber and metal framed pivot and casement windows, paired to front elevation, those to first floor having share carved archivolts to front, single archivolt to centre to south elevation. Round-headed door opening with carved granite ashlar architrave having part-glazed double-leaf timber panelled door. Square-headed door opening with carved ashlar granite lugged architrave, entablature having dentillated pediment, and double-leaf timber panelled door.

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