Medical School - Final Grant of Planning Permission

The proposed development comprises a 3,450 sqm extension to the rear of Block E and a refurbishment of the existing Block E. The completed building will accommodate the School of Medicine.

The building forms an arrangement with the Quadrangle and Block D which frames the parkland space and former gardens (now a car park) on the university campus (along University Road, R863), at University of Galway.

The existing Block E is a detached nine-bay, three-storey H-plan faculty building, which was built circa 1890. It features three-bay projecting sections at the east and west ends of the front elevation, six-bay side elevations and a mid-twentieth-century addition at the east end of the rear. The main block has a hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, battened timber-clad overhanging eaves supported by carved timber brackets and cast-iron rainwater goods with decorative brackets. The walls are painted roughcast render with a moulded render plinth and render sill courses at ground, first and second floors. Windows are camber-headed openings with one-over-one pane timber sliding sashes and twelve-pane over lights, including an offset stairwell at the west end of the rear elevation. Entrance openings are also camber-headed with recessed render surrounds, except for the rear entrance. Doors are double-leaf carved timber panelled with twelve-pane over lights above carved timber entablatures featuring ventilated cornice, decorative frieze and architrave. Tooled limestone steps provide access to the central bays of the projecting front sections. The building is located within the University of Galway campus grounds.