Survey Data
Reg No
16315002
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Previous Name
Scoil Náisiúnta Naomh Iosep
Original Use
School
In Use As
School
Date
1930 - 1935
Coordinates
328875, 195377
Date Recorded
03/07/2003
Date Updated
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Description
Detached multiple-bay single-storey school house, built in 1931. The building is roughly U-shaped with projecting wings to the south, and has a vague Arts & Crafts appearance. The façade is in semi-coursed rubble stone with roughly dressed granite quoins and brick dressings to the openings. There is a rusticated cut-limestone date stone inscribed: "Scoil Naomh Iosep/Scoil Náisiúnta/Ráth Naoi/1931". The overhanging pitched roof is mainly gable-ended with a small section between the south projections hipped. The entire roof is slated, and has a rendered chimneystack to west and plain bargeboards. The main entrance is to the east elevation and consists of a partly glazed replacement timber door with three pane rectangular fanlight and stone steps. The windows are all flat-headed and of various sizes but with many arranged in groups of three. All have replacement uPVC frames and stone sills. Cast-iron rainwater goods.
Appraisal
A good example of a mid 20th-century Arts and Crafts influenced school house, which apart from its uPVC window frames, is still largely intact. Forms an attractive grouping with the neighbouring similarly styled church.