Survey Data
Reg No
31815003
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Previous Name
Scoil Náisiúnta Baile an Tobair
Original Use
School
In Use As
Community centre
Date
1920 - 1930
Coordinates
172843, 274528
Date Recorded
21/08/2003
Date Updated
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Description
Detached multiple-bay single-storey former national school, built in 1929, with projecting bays flanking central gable-fronted entrance porch. Extension to rear. Now used as a community centre. Pitched slate roof with ridge tiles, eaves brackets, timber barge-boards, cast-iron rainwater goods and brick chimneystacks. Catslide roof to projecting bays. Rendered walls with plaque to gable of porch. Timber sash windows with stone sills. Paired entrances with recessed timber battened doors and limestone steps. Toilet block to east of school. School is set back from the road on its own grounds. Site bounded to front by random coursed stone wall and piers. Pair of wrought-iron gates providing access to farmland to north of school.
Appraisal
This former national school, built in 1929, retains much original fabric such as the slate roof, sash windows, cast-iron roof vents and rainwater goods. These features combine to make this a very attractive and notable example of the type of school architecture built in the early twentieth century.