Survey Data
Reg No
22105086
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Previous Name
Scoil na mBráthar Scoil Náisiúnta
Original Use
School
In Use As
School
Date
1935 - 1940
Coordinates
207346, 140504
Date Recorded
30/06/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Detached multiple-bay single-storey school, dated 1937, with slightly higher articulated entrance bay and having two-bay double-height hipped-roofed return and single-storey flat-roofed extensions to rear. Hipped artificial slate roof with brick chimneystacks and terracotta ridge capping. Dressed limestone cornice with carved limestone cross finial to entrance bay. Roughcast rendered walls with English bond red brick walls, having render plinth and square-headed panels with chamfered render surrounds and cast-iron grilles below windows to front elevation. Entrance bay has projecting stepped-profile red brick jambs and having carved limestone date plaque. Square-headed window openings with limestone sills and replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed door opening with half-glazed timber panelled double-leaf door with window over and limestone step. Brick and rendered boundary wall with cast-iron railings to front of site having cast-iron piers and gate.
Appraisal
This is a fine example of a large 1930s school. The use of varied materials such as red brick, roughcast render and dressed limestone is typical of the period. The articulated entrance bay provides a distinctive focus to the façade. The front boundary wall and railings add significantly to the setting of the school. It forms part of an interesting ensemble of educational buildings with the adjacent former monastery.