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Surgery or clinic in Limerick Municipal Borough

Surgery/clinic
Surgery or clinic in Limerick Municipal Borough
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Surgery or clinic in Limerick Municipal Borough sounds a modest enough address until you meet the former dispensary’s grand central gable and two-storey pillars. You’d swear the bottle of cough mixture was going to appear on the steps and announce its engagement.

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Detached corner-sited seven-bay two-storey red brick former dispensary, built c. 1890, facing east with a front railed area and a central raised gabled breakfront. Hipped artificial slate roof with replacement metal rainwater goods supported on a dentilled cornice to eaves. The central single-bay breakfront has a large pediment with natural slate covering and terracotta dentil cornice supported by a pair of red brick pilasters flanking a recessed frame with egg-and-dart frame and a modern inscribed panel. Red brick walls lay in stretcher bond with a red brick pilaster flanking each bay. Camber-headed window openings with a fluted terracotta keystone and terracotta cyma reversal stringcourse. Nosed limestone sills with uPVC windows. The breakfront has a single round-headed window opening with red brick voussoirs and terracotta fluted keystone and uPVC window on a nosed limestone sill course to the entire breakfront. Similar round-headed door opening with a terracotta rosette to either side and a modern hardwood double-leaf timber-panelled door opening onto three limestone steps and flanked by a low rendered wall with red brick plinth course and a moulded limestone coping supporting wrought-iron railings and a pair of wrought-iron gates. To north side elevation is a further round-headed door opening with keystone and timber-panelled door flanked by a pair of round-headed window openings with one-over-one timber sash windows on limestone nosed sill.
A most pleasant former dispensary with a slender, yet dramatic, pedimented breakfront. The sober red brick façade is enlivened by the double-height pilasters, various string and sill courses that add a decorative element to this narrow streetscape.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 21518034

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Pictures: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; William Murphy from Dublin, Ireland, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; Stevesphotography, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; Henry Edward Doyle, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain; Roland Czaczyk ( FreeBird 19:17, 23 December 2006 (UTC)), Wikimedia Commons · Public domain; Hywel Williams, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; David Hawgood, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

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