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Central Mental Hospital — Dundrum Road

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Central Mental Hospital — Dundrum Road
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Detached single-bay (three-bay deep) two-storey gable-fronted hospital, built 1847-51, on a T-shaped plan with single-bay single-storey porch abutting single-bay full-height turret (south). Adapted to alternative use, 1867. Now in alternative use. Pitched (gable-fronted) slate roofs including pitched (gabled) slate roof (turret) with clay ridge tiles, cut-granite chamfered coping to gables on cut-granite corbel kneelers with wrought iron finials to apexes, and cast-iron rainwater goods retaining cast-iron downpipes. Part repointed coursed rubble limestone walls on cut-granite chamfered cushion course on rendered plinth with cut-granite flush quoins to corners. Square-headed window opening in tripartite arrangement (ground floor) with cut-granite cruciform mullions, and cut-granite block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals with hood moulding framing pivot fittings having square glazing bars. Paired square-headed window openings (first floor), cut-granite block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals with hood mouldings framing pivot fittings having square glazing bars. Square-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement (north) with cut-granite cruciform mullions, and cut-granite block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals with hood mouldings framing pivot fittings having square glazing bars. Square-headed window openings (first floor) with cut-granite block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing fixed-pane fittings having square glazing bars. Set in grounds shared with Central Mental Hospital.

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