Saint Brendan's Hospital — Grangegorman Lower

Detached E-plan five-bay two-storey infirmary, built c.1850, having gabled breakfronts to either end of front (south) elevation, central gabled porch to front with half-dormer window over, full-height returns to either end and to centre of rear elevation, with single-storey extension with hipped roof to central return. Pitched artificial slate roofs, cast-iron rainwater goods, terracotta ridge tiles. Snecked calp limestone walls, block-and-start quoins, shouldered buttresses having limestone capping, limestone string course at plinth level. Chimney abutting east elevation, chimneystack absent. Pointed arch openings to apices of end-bays, dressed chamfered limestone surrounds and timber louvered vents. Square-headed window openings, dressed chamfered limestone surrounds, sills, calp voussoirs over, ten-over-fifteen pane timber sash windows, bipartite eight-over-twelve pane timber sash windows to ground floor flanking porch. Ten-over-fifteen pane timber sash window and ten-pane overlight to half-dormer window. Four-over-six and eight-over-twelve pane timber sash windows to side elevations. Bipartite six-over-nine pane timber sash windows to first floor to rear. Square-headed window openings to rear and returns, red brick voussoirs, surrounds and chamfered limestone sills, six-over-nine, eight-over-twelve, four-over-six pane timber sash windows. Some steel grilles over windows. Chamfered corners to porch. Square-headed shouldered door opening to front of porch, chamfered limestone surround, double-leaf half-glazed timber battened door. Square-headed door opening to rear, render block-and-start surround, double-leaf half-glazed timber battened door and overlight.