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Loreto Convent

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Loreto Convent
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Detached six-bay two-storey convent, built 1909, with advanced gable-fronted bay. Four-bay two-storey wing to south side with advanced gable-fronted central bays. Now also in use as school. ROOF: Double pitched; slate; moulded terracotta roof ridge tiles; limestone coping to gable ends with carved minatue limestone gable ends supported on brackets; gable pediment place above single-bay break front; limeston cross located at apex of gable to right, missing on left gable; red brick chimney stacks, clay pots, cast-iron rainwater goods. WALLS: Rendered walls; moulded red brick cornice mouldings.OPENINGS:Ground floor; shallow pointed arched hood mouldings; rendered reveals, limestone cills, 2/2 timber sashes, 1/1 timber sashes with added mullions to rear elevation central window at first floor has hood moulding and point arched inset with limestone dressing.

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