Survey Data
Reg No
41307010
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Previous Name
The Temperance Hall
Original Use
School master's house
In Use As
House
Date
1860 - 1880
Coordinates
271595, 320554
Date Recorded
02/10/2011
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey former school house, built c.1870, with single-bay two-storey return to rear. Pitched slate roof with grey clayware ridge tiles and smooth-rendered chimneystacks, and having replacement rainwater goods. Coursed limestone walls with block-and-start quoins to front elevation, and with roughcast rendered walls to rear elevation with smooth rendered gable walls. Square-headed window openings having rendered surrounds surmounted by pediments, additional red brick block-and-start surrounds, and replacement timber casement windows, and two-over-two pane horned timber sliding sash windows to rear elevation. Square-headed door opening with replacement timber panelled door with overlight. Set within own grounds to rear of former Hall Street National School/Temperance Hall. Coursed rubble limestone wall surmounted by railings of cast-iron, and centred pedestrian gateway comprising gate and piers of cast iron. Located west of Ballybay town centre.
Appraisal
This is a handsome, if modest, building of good stone masonry construction, which retains a great deal of its intrinsic architectural fabric including natural slate roof and a number of horned timber sliding sash windows. Having been built as the school-master's house, to the rear of the school building and in close proximity to the Methodist church the building also carries heritage merit as part of an ecclesiastical and educational group, typical of the Victorian period in the context of rural Irish towns.