Survey Data
Reg No
30308004
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Previous Name
University College Galway
Original Use
Faculty building
In Use As
Faculty building
Date
1880 - 1900
Coordinates
129338, 225822
Date Recorded
23/07/2008
Date Updated
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Description
Detached nine-bay three-storey H-plan faculty building, built c.1890, having three-bay projecting bays to east and west ends of front elevation, six-bay side elevations, and mid-twentieth-century addition to east end of rear. Hipped slate roof to main block, having rendered chimneystacks, battened timber-clad overhanging eaves with carved timber brackets, and cast-iron rainwater goods with decorative brackets. Painted roughcast rendered walls with moulded render plinth, having render sill courses to ground, first and second floors. Camber-headed window openings having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows with twelve-pane overlights, including offset stairwell to west end of rear elevation. Camber-headed openings to entrances having recessed render surrounds, with exception of rear entrance, double-leaf carved timber panelled doors with twelve-pane overlights over carved timber entablature comprising dentillated cornice, decorative frieze and architrave, tooled limestone steps to middle bays of projections to front elevation. Located within the grounds of the University of Galway campus.
Appraisal
This is a fine late Victorian building, which has remained largely unchanged despite the addition of extensions to allow for expanding use. It has much decorative detailing to its entrances, eaves brackets and downpipes. The building forms part of a group of finely designed and constructed buildings in the university grounds which as a whole contribute significantly to the character of Galway city.