Reg No
14819095
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
Community centre
In Use As
Community centre
Date
1950 - 1955
Coordinates
205829, 205016
Date Recorded
26/08/2004
Date Updated
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Detached multiple-bay two-storey hall, built in 1954, with flat-roofed entrance extension to front and side and flat-roofed extension to rear. Set within its own grounds. Pitched corrugated asbestos roof to hall with rendered chimneystack and cast-iron vents. Flat roof to entrance extension. Roughcast rendered walls to hall with smooth rendered vertical buttresses dividing bays to side elevation. Brick to extension walls. Fixed and casement windows with brick surrounds and stone sills. Square-headed door opening with large flanking sidelights and overlight. Brick wall with gate piers and concrete coping with metal railings and double gates to front site.
Set within its own grounds, this hall caters for the Birr community. With its modern linear design and the incorporation of varied materials, this socially significant building contrasts with the historic fabric of the predominantly Georgian town. Established in 1954, this structure like many in Ireland, was constructed to mark and celebrate the Marian Year.