Survey Data
Reg No
41310079
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Previous Name
Carrickmacross Health Centre
Original Use
Surgery/clinic
In Use As
Surgery/clinic
Date
1920 - 1940
Coordinates
284350, 303622
Date Recorded
23/11/2011
Date Updated
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Description
Detached five-bay single-storey over basement clinic, built c.1930, with projecting end bays. Rear presents full two-storey elevation. Sprocketed slate roof, with smooth rendered chimneystack to rear, smooth rendered eaves course, and replacement rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered plinth course. Square-headed window openings with timber sliding sash windows throughout, tripartite six-over-six pane flanked by four-over-four pane to projecting bays, four-over-four pane flanking entrance, and six-over-six pane to rear and end walls, all with smooth rendered reveals and painted sills. Square-headed door opening with glazed timber door and sidelights with projecting smooth rendered surround having column detail approached by concrete ramp. Set in own grounds, bounded by rubble limestone wall with rubble coping, with double-leaf cast-iron gate.
Appraisal
This public building adds to the variety of architecture in Carrickmacross. Its sloping site allows a formal single-storey front elevation and two-storey rear elevation. The entrance is well defined by and the building's symmetry is emphasised by the tripartite windows to the projecting bays. It is a good example of public health architecture and has retained all of its original external detailing.