Survey Data
Reg No
20823057
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Scientific, Social
Previous Name
Youghal Protestant Asylum
Original Use
Almshouse
In Use As
House
Date
1835 - 1840
Coordinates
210259, 78118
Date Recorded
21/03/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Detached seven-bay two-storey former asylum, built 1838, having gabled projecting central and end bays, and projecting central porch. Now in use as sheltered housing. Pitched slate roofs with brick Tudor-style chimneystacks and having stepped sandstone parapet to central gabled bay. Roughly dressed sandstone masonry walls having string course between floors and stepped label moulding over first floor central openings. Painted rendered walls to east and west elevations. Lancet openings to gables. Square-headed openings, all having replacement casement windows. Recent limestone plaque over square-headed timber battened double leaf doors.
Appraisal
This former asylum was built by the Protestant Relief Society to provide rooms for 22 elderly Protestants, who received religious instruction every day from the local minister. The building substantially retains its original form and structure, and is an important part of the social heritage of the town. The form is influenced by the Tudor Revival style of architecture which was popular in the mid nineteenth century.