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Inchicore Library — Emmet Road

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Inchicore Library — Emmet Road
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Detached seven-bay single-storey Art Deco library, built 1937, having taller entrance breakfront to front (north) elevation, and lean-to extension to rear. Hipped tiled roof having red brick chimneystack to rear, cast-iron rainwater goods. Channelled rendered parapet. Red brick walls laid in English Garden Wall bond over rendered plinth, having recessed brick string courses. Strip windows having square headed window openings chamfered sills and rendered header and sill courses, red brick mullions. Steel windows, having pivoting lights. Corner wrap-around windows to all elevations. Entrance bay having decorative parapet, and recessed square-headed door opening having stepped surround with sawtooth motif. Glazed timber panelled double-leaf doors having plain overlight. Interior having plastered finish to walls and ceiling, glazed internal porch, fixed timber reception desk and timber shelving. Set back from road on raised site having concrete steps and steel handrail. Enclosed by steel railings on rendered plinth wall, having double leaf pedestrian gates

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