Survey Data
Reg No
21514007
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Historical, Social
Previous Name
Convent of the Good Shepherd
Original Use
Orphanage/children's home
In Use As
Building misc
Date
1880 - 1900
Coordinates
158434, 157248
Date Recorded
06/06/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Detached thirteen-bay three-storey (twelve-bay to rear) former orphanage, built c. 1890, now partly in use by the health board. Hipped artificial slate roof with replacement metal rainwater goods on eaves course. Rendered walls. Camber-headed chamfered window openings throughout. Rendered sills and boarded up to second floor. Same to first floor with continuous sill course and running hood moulding forming semi-circle over each opening covering two round-headed windows to west end with cross to recessed panel. Recessed round-headed arches to ground floor with openings as above, and some six-over-six timber sash windows and some uPVC windows. Projecting render door surround to north below two round-headed windows with round-headed door openings also blocked up. Car park to front and rear with attached later two-storey building. Rubble-stone wall to rear with modern wings and steel gates.
Appraisal
This structure has fine proportions and stands on a prominent site, which was once the site of the former Thomond Brewery. Now in a poor state and in partial by the health board, it is of social and historic significance for its role in caring for abandoned children.