Reg No
15702511
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Previous Name
Killegney and Rossdroit School
Original Use
School
Date
1900 - 1910
Coordinates
287503, 136225
Date Recorded
21/08/2007
Date Updated
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Detached three-bay single-storey national school, built 1905, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled projecting lower porch; two-bay single-storey rear (west) elevation. Renovated, ----. Closed, 2012. Now disused. Pitched slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on pitched (gabled) slate roof (porch), trefoil-perforated crested terracotta ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stacks having corbelled stepped capping, decorative timber bargeboards to gables on timber purlins with timber finials to apexes, and cast-iron rainwater goods on exposed timber rafters retaining cast-iron downpipes. Repointed coursed rubble stone walls originally fine roughcast on cut-granite chamfered plinth with red brick quoins to corners. Square-headed central door opening with cut-granite threshold, and red brick block-and-start surround framing replacement glazed timber panelled door. Square-headed flanking window openings with cut-granite sills, and red brick block-and-start surrounds framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing two-over-two timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds.
A national school representing an integral component of the early twentieth-century built heritage of the environs of Cloghbaun with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact plan form centred on an expressed porch; and the decorative timber work embellishing the roofline. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with quantities of the original fabric: however, neither the removal of the surface finish nor the introduction of replacement fittings to the openings has had a beneficial impact on the external expression or integrity of a national school forming part of a neat self-contained group alongside an adjacent teacher's house (see 15702512) with the resulting ensemble making a pleasing visual statement in a sylvan street scene.