Mount Sion

Detached nine-bay two-storey former C.B.S school, built c.1900, with pedimented entrance breakfront in middle of slightly advanced middle three bays, slightly lower two-bay two-storey returns and single-storey chapel to rear, and two-bay full-height extensions to end gables of main block. Now in use as nursing home. Hipped slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks, cast-iron rainwater goods and with render eaves course. Smooth rendered walls with render to quoins, plinth and with plat bands to older parts of building at first floor window head and sill level. CBS insignia to pediment. Square-headed window openings with moulded render surrounds and replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed door opening with double-leaf timber panelled doors, having an overlight, moulded render surround with canopy supported on render console brackets and flanked by replacement uPVC sidelights, and having steps to door. Platform to front of building reached by flight of steps with rendered parapet walls and piers. Decorative cast-iron vehicular and pedestrian gates to road entrance set to cast-iron piers to rendered boundary walls with railings.

The form and scale of this building create an impressive structure set within its own grounds. Originally built as a school by the Christian Brothers this functional building presents a symmetrical façade which is enlivened by features such as the stepped breakfront with pediment and decorative render used in the window surrounds and platbands.