The building once used by Lagoa Council is being renovated before turning it into a municipal museum.
The €123,000 work programme will take three months and involved removing the old tiled roof and replacing them with sandwich panels in a lacquered steel finish.
The gutters will be replaced and the walls will be jet cleaned, repaired and painted.
At a later stage, the municipality will carry on inside the building to convert it from offices to a future Lagoa Museum.
The property once was a place of worship, then a prison, before becoming the headquarters of the Council. It currently functions as overspill office space for some Council services.
The modernisation of this venerable building by using lacquered panels leaves questions as to the suitability of the proposed materials.
Below: sandwich panels in a lacquered steel finish
