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Hospital/infirmary in Dublin, Ireland, dating from 1715–1735

Detached nineteen-bay two-storey former hospital with dormer attic, dated 1720, opened 1733, comprising four ranges surrounding central courtyard, projecting end-bays to front (east), north and south elevations, shallow pedimented central breakfronts to front and north elevations and shallow central breakfronts to south elevation and end-bays to front, half-basement to front and north elevations. Recent extension to rear (west) elevation. Now in use as offices. Hipped sprocketed mansard roofs, rendered chimneystacks with clay chimney pots, cast-iron rainwater goods. Pedimented dormer windows having carved timber cornices and six-over-six or twelve-over-twelve pane timber sash windows. Carved granite eaves course. Octagonal-profile two-stage timber weatherboarded tower over front range, copper weathervane atop copper roof, dentillated cornice. Clock face to front elevation to first stage. Round-headed window openings to second stage, alternating timber sash windows and timber louvered vents. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls, painted masonry quoins, platband and plinth course, rendered walls to basement area. Square-headed window openings, granite sills and timber sash windows, sixteen-over-sixteen pane to front, sixteen-over-twelve pane to ground floor and twenty-four-over-twenty pane to first floor to north, twenty-four-over-twenty pane and two-over-two pane to rear, replacement

Type:
Hospital/infirmary

Period:
1715–1735

Where:
Dublin, Ireland

Coordinates:
53.35°N, 6.29°W

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