Survey Data
Reg No
11810030
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Previous Name
Rathangan National School
Original Use
School
In Use As
Community centre
Date
1770 - 1790
Coordinates
267034, 219494
Date Recorded
12/06/2002
Date Updated
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Description
End-of-terrace five-bay two-storey former school with dormer attic, c.1780, with single-bay single-storey return to rear to north-east. Extensively renovated, c.1990. Subsequently in residential use. Now in use as community centre. Gable-ended roofs. Replacement artificial slate, c.1990. Concrete ridge tiles. Rendered chimney stacks. Square rooflights, c.1990, to pitch to north-east. Replacement uPVC rainwater goods, c.1990, on eaves course. Roughcast wall to front (south-west) elevation. Unpainted. Rendered walls to remainder. Unpainted. Square-headed openings. Stone sills. Replacement 6/6 timber sash windows, c.1990. Timber panelled door. Overlight. Road fronted. Concrete flagged footpath to front.
Appraisal
Rathangan Schoolhouse (Old) is a fine, substantial building of graceful balanced proportions that, although extensively renovated in the late twentieth century, retains most of its original form with replacement materials that are in keeping with the original integrity of the design. The building is of social and historical interest as part of a group of late eighteenth/early nineteenth-century terraced houses that form the core of the earliest part of Rathangan, and for its original purpose as one of the earliest educational facilities in the locality. This building is also of interest for its contribution to the streetscape of Leinster Street, continuing the established streetline of the terrace and forming an attractive terminating point to that terrace, while contributing to the undulating roofline of the north-west end of the street.