Survey Data
Reg No
12505167
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Previous Name
Scoil an Chlochair Portlaoise
Original Use
School
In Use As
School
Date
1870 - 1890
Coordinates
247249, 198435
Date Recorded
29/08/2008
Date Updated
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Description
Attached seven-bay two-storey national school, built c.1880, with full-height gabled entrance hall, attached to rear of 1930s school (12505166). Hipped artificial slate roof, synthetic ridge tiles, ogee cast-iron gutter on red and yellow brick eaves course, cast-iron downpipes, decorative pierced bargeboard to entrance gable. Painted ruled-and-lined rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, round-headed window to first floor of entrance gable, segmental-headed to ground floor, segmental-headed door opening to west side of entrance gable; all with replacement uPVC door and overlight, and windows. Tarmacadam yard.
Appraisal
A solid late Victorian building whose integrity has been compromised by the loss of much of its original historic fabric. Its main significance is as part of an important group of national school buildings dating from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century including 12505168 and 12505166.