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Clontarf Telephone Exchange — Castle Avenue

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Clontarf Telephone Exchange — Castle Avenue
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Freestanding three-bay two-storey telephone exchange, built 1926, having corner pavilions. Extended to rear (south) 1954. Flat roofs, having rooflights to rear extension. Rendered parapets having pulvinated frieze and cornice. Red brick walls to corner pavilions, having concrete block walls to ground floor and roughcast rendered walls to first floor of main elevations. Cast-iron plaque with harp to front (north) elevation. Square-headed window openings with sloped concrete sills, having timber-framed and replacement uPVC windows. Windows set within recesses, having concrete corbels, to corner bays. Tiled headers to corner windows, brick voussoirs to others. Square-headed door opening to east elevation with double-leaf timber sheeted door and overlight. Rubble stone wall to front boundary having steel pedestrian gate and roughcast rendered piers.

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