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St. Columba's National School — Waterloo Avenue

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St. Columba's National School — Waterloo Avenue
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Detached T-plan three-bay three-storey national school, built c. 1835, having projecting gable-fronted bay to southeast, extended to north and northwest ends and porches added to front (southwest) and rear in 1944. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, having leaded masonry barges to southwest and northwest ends, rendered chimneystacks with clay pots, profiled cast-iron rainwater goods, and flat roofs to extensions. Snecked squared calp limestone walling with cast-bronze date plaque to front elevation, and pebbledashed walls to extensions. Square-headed window openings with replacement uPVC frames, dressed limestone reveals and granite sills to west end and chamfered limestone reveals and voussoirs with sloping limestone sills to east. Square-headed doorway to porch to front, with rendered pilasters supporting concrete canopy, and having replacement timber door. Dressed limestone wall with concrete coping, brick piers with pyramidal concrete caps and single-leaf cast-iron gate to front.

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