School in Fermoy, County Cork (20820013)

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Detached five-bay two-storey former technical school, dated 1931, now in use as school, having two-bay two and three-storey extension to east and multiple-bay multiple-storey extensions to rear with flat roofs and pitched roofs. Pitched artificial slate roofs to main block, with rendered chimneystacks. Painted roughcast rendered walls with render quoins. Painted full-height smooth render panels framing windows of each bay, and painted smooth render plinth course. Square-headed openings with moulded render surrounds and render sills, windows to ground floor having moulded render brackets to sills, and moulded render cornices. Six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows, with Venetian-style arrangement to first floor of entrance bay, sidelights being four-over-four pane. Venetian-style window opening to upper west gable having moulded render surround, bracketed sill, blind centre flanked by square-headed four-over-four pane timber sliding sash sidelights. Square-headed main entrance door opening with moulded render surround, in turn having render surround, moulded render canopy supported on heavy decorative render consoles and having timber panelled half-glazed doors with small-paned timber-glazed overlights. Flight of concrete steps to entrance. Set back from street with site bounded to front by rendered wall having steel railings. Square-profile rendered piers and decorative steel gate to entrance. Rendered square-profile piers and recessed panels to either end of wall with render lettering.

The scale and form of this building are characteristic of technical schools of the era in Ireland. Its size as well as its setting make it a prominent feature on the streetscape. Its façade is enlivened by the Italianate render dressings which give it an elegant and stylized façade, similar to the facades of the surrounding buildings. The building is still in use in the educational sector.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 20820013

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