Naas Town Hall

Prison/jail in Kildare, Ireland, dating from 1795–1800

Detached seven-bay three-storey former gaol, built 1796, retaining early fenestration with three-bay three-storey canted advanced entrance bay to centre having single-bay single-storey flat-roofed advanced doorcase to centre, two-bay three-storey gabled flanking end bays, two-bay three-storey side elevations to north-east and to south-west, and three-bay three-storey return to rear to north-west. Extensively renovated, 1904, with façade remodelled in Italianate Classical style to accommodate use as town hall. Renovated, 1905, with right ground floor converted to use as Carnegie Free Library. Renovated, c.1990. Gable-ended (gable-fronted) roofs behind parapet walls with slate. Clay ridge tiles. Rendered chimney stacks. Cut-stone coping to gables. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Replacement render, 1904, to ground floor front (south-east) elevation. Channelled. Painted. Roughcast walls to upper floors. Painted. Rendered dressings including stringcourses, paired pilasters to first floor and moulded surrounds to gables to flanking bays forming open bed pediments with scalloped course. Rendered profiled parapet wall to canted entrance bay on moulded cornice with clock on a triangular plan, recessed panels, inscribed date stone and moulded coping. Replacement roughcast, c.1990, to remainder. Unpainted. Cut-stone dressings to gables forming open bed pediments. Segmental-headed openings to

Type:
Prison/jail

Period:
1795–1800

Where:
Kildare, Ireland

Coordinates:
53.22°N, 6.66°W

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