Saint Otteran's Hospital
Hospital/infirmary in Waterford, Ireland, dating from 1830–1835
Detached thirty-three-bay two-storey over basement Classical-style lunatic asylum, dated 1834, originally on a symmetrical Palladian-style plan retaining original fenestration comprising three-bay two-storey central entrance block with single-bay three-storey breakfront incorporating clock tower (having polygonal clock stage), single-bay two-storey gabled projecting flanking bays, single-bay two-storey flat-roofed linking bays, and twelve-bay two-storey flanking lateral wings to north-west and to south-east having single-bay two-storey advanced end bays, and four-bay two-storey returns to south-west. Extended, c.1860, comprising eight-bay two-storey over basement wing to north-west on an L-shaped plan with eleven-bay two-storey return to south-west incorporating three single-bay two-storey canted bay windows, and eight-bay two-storey wing to south-east on an L-shaped plan with seven-bay two-storey return to south-west. Part refenestrated, pre-1999. Now in use as hospital. Pitched and hipped slate roofs behind parapets with clay ridge tiles, limestone ashlar chimney stacks, copper-clad vents to ridges, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Copper-clad ogee-dome to clock tower with moulded finial. Limestone ashlar walls to entrance (north-east) front with cut-limestone dressings including stringcourse to first floor, moulded cornices having blocking courses to parapets, and moulded surr
- Type:
- Hospital/infirmary
- Period:
- 1830–1835
- Where:
- Waterford, Ireland
- Coordinates:
- 52.25°N, 7.10°W
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