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Saint Brendan's Hospital — Grangegorman Lower

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Saint Brendan's Hospital — Grangegorman Lower
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Detached five-bay two-storey infirmary, built c.1850, having gabled breakfronts to either end of both front (south) and rear (north) elevation, central gabled porch to front, having half-dormer window over, central two-storey gabled return to rear. Pitched artificial slate roofs, cast-iron rainwater goods, terracotta ridge tiles. Snecked dressed calp limestone walls, block-and-start quoins, shouldered buttresses having limestone capping, limestone string course at plinth level. Stepped chimneys abutting side elevations, chimneystacks absent. Pointed arch openings to apices of end-bays, chamfered limestone surrounds and timber louvered vents. Square-headed window openings to front and side elevations with chamfered limestone surrounds, sills, calp voussoirs over. Square-headed window openings to rear elevation, red brick voussoirs and surrounds, chamfered limestone sills. Replacement aluminium windows throughout. Chamfered corners to porch. Square-headed shouldered door opening to front of porch, chamfered limestone surround, replacement double-leaf glazed aluminium door and overlight. Square-headed door opening to front, chamfered limestone surround, replacement glazed aluminium door.

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