Survey Data
Reg No
30411101
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
School
In Use As
School
Date
1940 - 1950
Coordinates
88105, 209670
Date Recorded
13/08/2009
Date Updated
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Description
Detached single-storey vocational school, built c.1945, comprising eight-bay central block flanked by lower projecting three-bay block to north and four-bay block to south, latter later extended to rear and increased in height. Further multiple-bay single-storey block at right angle to rear, having walls and roof similar to main blocks. Another rendered block to south of this block. Pitched slate roofs, slightly sprocketed to flanking blocks, having snecked hammer-dressed limestone chimneystack to middle block. Snecked hammer-dressed battered limestone walls, with rendered eaves course, and having chamfered corners to south flanking block. Square-headed windows throughout having replacement uPVC windows with painted lintels, reveals and concrete sills. Square-headed entrance in north side of south block having replacement uPVC double-leaf door with concrete ramp and metal railing. Lawn to front bounded by rubble limestone wall and having coursed limestone piers to north and south with metal vehicular gates.
Appraisal
This school forms part of a group of similarly detailed limestone-built structures on Árainn erected in the mid-twentieth century. Its coursed snecked hammer-dressed stonework adds greatly appeal to the building which otherwise is distinguished by its simple door and window openings, with a single chimneystack to the middle block. Its role in the education of the islanders has been considerable.