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Drumcondra Library — Millmount Avenue

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Drumcondra Library — Millmount Avenue
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Detached seven-bay single-storey library building, built 1937, having five-bay side elevations and added lean-to block to rear. Pitched and hipped pantile roof with concrete hip and ridge tiles having single red brick corniced chimneystack to east wall with clay pot. Concealed gutters and cast-iron downpipes. Brown brick walls laid in English garden wall bond, with rendered and painted plinth and incised parapet with concrete coping. Square-headed wrap-around window openings with continuous painted cast-concrete chamfered sill and lintel; margined metal-framed windows having central pivot openings. Square-headed stepped Art Deco doorway, set in geometric portal breaking eaves level; stained timber door with glazed panels and brass furniture opening onto concrete platform with five granite steps with access ramp. Set behind grass margins enclosed by wrought-iron fence and gates on concrete plinth.

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