Survey Data
Reg No
14327008
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social, Technical
Previous Name
Scoil Náisiúnta Cholumbáin
Original Use
School
In Use As
School
Date
1955 - 1960
Coordinates
268306, 254119
Date Recorded
18/06/2002
Date Updated
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Description
Detached multiple-bay single-storey national school, built 1956. Comprising of eleven-bay double-height pitched roofed central block, with projecting flat-roofed block to front and side elevations. Seven-bays to flat-roofed entrance block, with flanking five-bay flat-roofed projections, and having square-profiled water tower at western end. Roughcast rendered walls with date plaque and rendered eaves and plinth courses. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Timber sash windows with concrete sills. Stone door surround with concrete canopy. Flat-roofed playground shelters with concrete columns and timber seating. Bounded by roughcast rendered walls with metal gates and turnstiles.
Appraisal
A simple yet attractive school, this structure's strong horizontality is expressed by the use of flat roofs and eaves and plinth bands. This school retains many of its original features and materials such as the timber sash windows, date plaque, water tower and concrete shelter.