Health Service Executive — Steevens's Lane

Detached nineteen-bay two-storey former hospital with dormer attic, dated 1720, opened 1733, comprising four ranges surrounding central courtyard, projecting end-bays to front (east), north and south elevations, shallow pedimented central breakfronts to front and north elevations and shallow central breakfronts to south elevation and end-bays to front, half-basement to front and north elevations. Recent extension to rear (west) elevation. Now in use as offices. Hipped sprocketed mansard roofs, rendered chimneystacks with clay chimney pots, cast-iron rainwater goods. Pedimented dormer windows having carved timber cornices and six-over-six or twelve-over-twelve pane timber sash windows. Carved granite eaves course. Octagonal-profile two-stage timber weatherboarded tower over front range, copper weathervane atop copper roof, dentillated cornice. Clock face to front elevation to first stage. Round-headed window openings to second stage, alternating timber sash windows and timber louvered vents. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls, painted masonry quoins, platband and plinth course, rendered walls to basement area. Square-headed window openings, granite sills and timber sash windows, sixteen-over-sixteen pane to front, sixteen-over-twelve pane to ground floor and twenty-four-over-twenty pane to first floor to north, twenty-four-over-twenty pane and two-over-two pane to rear, replacement uPVC windows to rear and south elevations. Six-over-six pane timber sash window to apex of pediment to front. Square-headed window openings to apex of pediment to north, carved pedimented granite surround, eight-over-eight pane timber sash window, flanked by oculi having carved granite surrounds and timber framed windows. Tripartite arrangement of timber sash windows over door to north, shared granite sill. Cut calp limestone doorcase to front comprising pilasters supporting segmental-headed pediment and entablature, inscribed plaque and elliptical-arched door opening, having carved surround over double-leaf door with wrought-iron scroll work, wrought-iron scroll-work tympanum. Door opening onto granite platform, cast-iron bootscrape, and splayed steps flanked by granite walls with carved granite coping. Wrought-iron railings on carved granite plinth wall surrounding basement area to front. Doorcase executed in limestone to north elevation, double-leaf timber panelled door, side panels and wrought-iron scroll-work to fanlight over, opening onto granite platform and steps, flanked by granite wall and carved granite copings. Square-headed door opening to north elevation, timber panelled door and overlight. Calp limestone arcade to ground floor to interior, calp voussoirs, dropped keystones and platband at impost level, platband over arcade. Projecting angled bays at attic level to interior courtyard, hipped artificial slate roofs and timber sash windows. Round-headed door opening to interior of courtyard, double-leaf timber panelled door, overlight and sidelights. Square-headed door openings, timber panelled doors and overlights. Square-headed door opening to interior, carved painted masonry surround, dropped keystone, blind opening, inscribed limestone plaque. Inscribed commemorative marble plaque to Grissell Steevens to interior, carved marble surround. Corridor to rear of door to front, stone flagged floor, cast-iron hand-rail with cast-iron hands as brackets, lantern overhead on matching railings. Carved limestone obelisk lamp standard on square-profile plinth to centre of courtyard. Square-profile round-headed cast-iron piers, having decorative panels, flanking double-leaf cast-iron gates with matching railings on carved granite plinth wall to front.