Bon Secours Hospital — Glasnevin Hill

Freestanding multiple-bay three-storey hospital, built 1946-51, comprising L-plan main block with three-bay projecting entrance tower, abutted by angled south wing and later perpendicular north wing having extension of 2006; complex of later additions to rear (west). Flat roof, having overhanging eaves over painted eaves band, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Stretcher-bond brown brick walling to concrete-frame structure over concrete plinth. Square-headed window openings, arranged singly, in pairs and groups of five and having faceted cast-concrete mullions, concrete sills, double header courses to lintels and single course beneath sills. Central grouped windows to south elevation have cast-concrete balconies to upper floors. Windows are replacement uPVC. Entrance tower windows contained in dressed granite panel with architrave and apron panels, resting on projecting cantilevered entrance canopy. Statue of Our Lady inset to round-headed niche over panel. Square-headed entrance door with wide dressed granite architrave containing two faceted cast-concrete columns without plinths or capitals. Aluminium-framed glazed automatic sliding doors. Varnished timber double-leaf seven-panel timber door to rear (north) of main block having deep moulded dressed granite architrave beneath deep canopy supported on square fluted pier; dressed granite side walls having mosaic depicting Saint Joseph. Extensive grounds, including carpark to east and lawn to south, bounded by steel railings on granite plinth to south; rubble stone boundary wall to east. Grotto to north of site. Steel vehicular and pedestrian gates on round-plan concrete piers with dressed granite plinth and panels and globe lanterns; pedestrian gates to each side on lower square granite piers. Lawn to front is site of early eighteenth-century Delville House (now demolished).