Inchicore Railway Works — Dublin 8

Detached gable-fronted twelve-bay double-height former railway paint shop, built c.1850, with full-width triple-pile extension to south c.1870, and recent single-storey extension to east elevation. Now in use as staff canteen and exhibition area. Pitched roofs with recent corrugated cladding and rooflights. Snecked cut limestone walls with red brick quoins and chamfered granite plinth course. Buttresses with brown brick quoins to front (north) elevation, corner buttresses with brown brick quoins to earlier building. West elevation of extension rebuilt. Loop window to each gable of north elevation with brown brick surround. Square-profile tapered red brick chimney to south-east corner of earlier building. Elliptical-headed window openings to front elevation with red brick surrounds and sloped sills, some enlarged to door openings. Replacement timber-framed windows. Elliptical-arched carriage arches to east and west elevations, having red brick surrounds to earlier block, yellow brick voussoirs to later block, all recently infilled and having recent windows and doors. Round-headed window openings to south elevation, having brown brick block-and-start surrounds and cut granite sills. Cast-iron flower boxes manufactured in railway works. Cast-iron columns and wrought-iron roof trusses to interior.