Survey Data
Reg No
11805073
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Original Use
School
Date
1840 - 1850
Coordinates
297340, 232759
Date Recorded
04/02/2003
Date Updated
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Description
Detached ten-bay single-storey national school, dated 1845, on a bow-ended symmetrical plan; three-bay single-storey side elevations. Now disused. Bow-ended hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Repointed coursed or snecked limestone walls originally roughcast on rendered chamfered plinth. Square-headed window openings centred on cut-limestone date stone ("1845") with cut-granite sills, and rendered surrounds framing timber casement windows behind wrought iron bars. Pair of round-headed flanking door openings with rendered surrounds framing "fanlight"-detailed rendered infill. Pointed-arch door openings (side elevations) with rendered block-and-start surrounds framing rendered infill. Pointed-arch flanking window openings with cut-limestone sills, and rendered block-and-start surrounds framing timber casement windows behind wrought iron bars. Road fronted with concrete footpath to front.
Appraisal
A national school representing an important component of the mid nineteenth-century built heritage of Celbridge. A prolonged period of neglect notwithstanding, the form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the segregated interior, thus upholding the character or integrity of a national school making a pleasing, if increasingly forlorn visual statement in a sylvan street scene.