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Teideal:	Lourdes Nursing Home, Convent Lane, Rathfarnham, South Dublin County
Údair:	National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Eochairfhocail:	four-storey former convent Five-bay four-storey tower advanced corner turrets ogee windows pointed arched doorway Five light double oriel window polygonal chimney stacks Cut stone window dressings red brick and pre-cast concrete extension lancet heads Slit windows conservatory granite Gibbsian door surround Gothic Revival abbey nursing home
Dáta Eisithe:	1-Ean-2002
Foilsitheoir:	Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government
Cur Síos:	Detached multiple-bay four-storey former convent, c. 1921, now in use as a nursing home. Five-bay four-storey tower with advanced corner turrets, ogee windows and pointed arched doorway. Five light double oriel window above. Four-bay three-storey wing to east, marked by prominent chimney breasts, polygonal stacks, paired windows below. South face simple treatment of four bays, single chimney stack. Cut stone dressings to openings, pitched slate roof. Multiple-bay three-storey extension to south, c.1970, with red brick and pre-cast concrete walls. Ground floor open, piers support upper storeys. Sequence of corner windows returning from north façade round to west elevation. Openings in pre-cast concrete bays with lancet heads forming projecting angle. Slit windows to south. East façade with conservatory. Plain openings, gable and eaves level chimney stacks to rere of tower (east) wing. Roughcast rendered boundary wall with granite Gibbsian door surround to pedestrian entrance and blocked openings having brick surrounds.
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10599/7473
Tá sé i mBailiúcháin:	National Inventory of Architectural Heritage Collection Published Items

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