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Saint Fintan's Hospital

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Saint Fintan's Hospital
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Detached five-bay single-storey with loft over, hospital outbuildings, built c.1897, now disused. Pitched slate roof with two lucarnes, brick stack to ridge, red brick cornice, barge boards to gable and lucarne, cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughly coursed limestone walls with hammer-dressed quoins. Square headed paired window openings with red brick block and start surrounds and stone sills, square headed door openings, two lucarnes with loft doors to front elevation, loft doors to end gables with the remains of a pulley hoist over eastern gable door, small windows to rear. Windows have all been blocked up, sheeted timber loft doors, four pane overlight survives over western ground floor doorway.
A well detailed outbuilding, with a suggestion of the Arts-and-Crafts style, softening its institutional feel. Its original function is unclear. On the OS map, surveyed 1907, it is indicated as a Fever Hospital. Good quality craftsmanship is reflected in the execution of the hammer dressed quoins and red brick surrounds. The contrast between the limestone rubble masonry and the red brick adds to its attractiveness. Although now disused it forms an integral part of the hospital complex.

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