Clontarf Hospital — Blackheath Park

Formerly detached complex-plan multiple-bay three-storey house with dormer attic, built 1872 and extended 1879, having canted-bays with hipped roofs to garden (south) elevation, box-bays, one with hipped roof, one gabled, to west elevation, gabled breakfront to entrance (north) elevation, gabled porch to east of this, to front of stair hall with cat-slide roof, and having lower three-bay block to east end, with flat-roof two-bay two-storey extension with bowed elevation, built c. 1950, to north of this. Now in use as hospital administration building. Pitched and hipped natural slate roofs, with clay ridge tiles and ridge cresting clay finials, carved timber brackets to eaves to east end, carved timbering to some gables to north elevation, concave render eaves course to north elevation, stepped red brick chimneystacks with cornices and cast-iron rainwater goods, some rooflights, and with flat-roof dormer window to north elevation. Roughcast rendered walls with moulded render stringcourses to upper floors and cut granite walls with red brick courses to ground floor. Square-headed window openings having carved Portland stone surrounds and transoms and sculpted sandstone panels to aprons to southwest corner, decorative render surrounds and moulded render sills to other bay windows to south elevation, with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, tripartite arrangement with Portland stone mullions to box-bay. Timber casement windows to first floor of west bay of south elevation. Mixed segmental-headed and square-headed window openings to ground floor having three-over-three and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows with cut granite sills. Tripartite arrangements of windows to gables to north elevation, one with central round-headed window, having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows flanked by casement windows. Segmental-headed window openings to stair hall to north elevation, timber framed stained glass windows, cut granite sills. Square-headed window openings to other openings to north elevation, mixed Portland stone surrounds and decorative render surrounds, mixed one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows and replacement windows. Round-headed door opening to porch with round-headed sidelight and blind opening to side (east and west) elevations, moulded render archivolts and impost moulding, timber panelled door and lettered overlight. Square-headed door opening to north elevation having chamfered reveals, half-glazed timber door with plain overlight, nosed granite steps with rendered retaining walls. Rendered walls with red brick pilasters and render cornice to twentieth-century extension, and square-headed window openings with render surrounds and timber casement windows. Retains interior features, including decorative plasterwork, timber panelling and joinery and stained glass. Set in own grounds, with more recent buildings to south, nurses' home to west, and carpark to north.