Scrolling through commercial property listings, one is truly exceptional. Baggot Street Hospital is for sale – a huge and stunning building in Dublin city.

It was designed by Albert Murray, a man from a family of architects including William Murray (his grandfather), cousin of the architect Francis Johnson.

An article published by Edmondson Architects, reveals that William Murray designed the College of Surgeons on St Stephen’s Green. His son, William George Murray, designed the Royal Marine Hotel in Bray and the Royal College of Physicians on Kildare Street.

Albert Murray designed the Dublin Central Mission on Chancery Place, but his hallmark building was what became the Royal City of Dublin Hospital, otherwise known as the Baggot Street Hospital.

The younger Murray’s style was colourful and decorative. Another example of his architecture is on Dawson Street, the Drummond’s Seed warehouse building.

Part of the complex is earmarked for a primary care centre. The rest is now being sold. That this building was surplus to the Health Service Executive’s (HSE) needs and was being prepared for sale was widely signposted. And what a building to have the chance to buy.........

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