Saint Joseph's Hospital
Hospital/infirmary in Limerick, Ireland, dating from 1890–1910
Detached nine-bay three-storey female block, c. 1900, with a two-bay side elevation, a three-bay three-storey return, a blind central bay and a pair of single-storey three-sided canted bays to the ground floor of the east elevation. M-profile hipped natural slate roof to the main section and a hipped natural slate roof to the return, all having sprocketed and stepped eaves. A full-height chimneystack to each side elevation stands forward from the elevation and rises between the M-profile roof. Cast-iron rainwater goods throughout. Squared and snecked hammer-finished limestone ashlar walls with a smooth limestone coping to a plinth course below. Smooth limestone ashlar quoins and window surrounds. Square-headed window openings with limestone sills and twelve-over-eight timber sash windows to ground and first floors, eight-over-eight to second floor, all with ogee horns. To the first floor of the east elevation is a round-arched blind niche with a carved surround and pediment above. Square-headed door openings with replacement timber-panelled doors and overlights. A tripartite door opening to the north elevation of the return has a carved stepped limestone surround with a pair of sidelights and a timber-panelled door with a multiple-pane overlight. Situated to the southwest corner of the main hospital block.
- Type:
- Hospital/infirmary
- Period:
- 1890–1910
- Where:
- Limerick, Ireland
- Coordinates:
- 52.66°N, 8.61°W
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