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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 complex-plan two-storey multiple-bay hospital building, built c.1870, remodelled 1898, having cruciform-plan block to east, with gabled breakfronts to side elevations of south wing, and canted apsidal ends to projecting blocks from south elevation of east and west wings. Block attached to north elevation of west wing, this having two-bay returns to north elevation, and three-bay two-storey box bay window to west gable. Recent extensions to front (north) and rear (south) elevations of both blocks. Gabled breakfronts to front and rear elevations. Pitched slate roofs, terracotta ridge tiles, limestone coping, limestone chimneystacks. Snecked calp limestone walls, block-and-start quoins, plinth course having carved calp capping. Oculus to apex of west elevation with chamfered surround and quatrefoil motif. Square-headed and segmental-headed window openings, some in threes and with cut stone mullions, chamfered block-and-start surrounds and sills, replacement uPVC windows. Some windows to front having chamfered red brick surrounds and voussoirs. Tudor arch door openings, chamfered limestone surround, timber panelled and battened doors with sidelights and overlight.

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