Waterford City Hall and Theatre Royal

Assembly rooms in Waterford, Ireland, dating from 1780–1785

Attached nine-bay two-storey Classical-style assembly hall and play house, built 1783, originally detached retaining original fenestration with three-bay two-storey breakfront, and incorporating fabric of medieval town wall, c.1150, to rear (north-west) elevation. Renovated, 1876, with interior of theatre remodelled. Renovated, 1996, with interior partly remodelled to ground floor. Extended, 1998, comprising single-bay full-height flat-roofed atrium to left (south-west) on a segmental plan. Now in use as town hall and theatre. Pitched slate roof to original block behind parapet with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Flat concrete roof to additional range behind parapet. Painted rendered walls to original block with limestone ashlar dressings including quoins to corners, rusticated frontispiece to ground floor breakfront having engaged Ionic columns over to first floor, continuous stringcourse to first floor, and plain frieze having moulded cornice with blocking course to parapet. Limestone ashlar-clad wall to south-east elevation of additional range with unpainted rendered walls to remainder. Square-headed window openings to original block with stone sills, and panelled surrounds having entablatures over on consoles (with triangular pediments over to first floor breakfront). Round-headed window openings to central bays of breakfront and f

Type:
Assembly rooms

Period:
1780–1785

Where:
Waterford, Ireland

Coordinates:
52.26°N, 7.11°W

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