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Attached gable-fronted three-bay three-storey former convent with attic accommodation, built 1895, having two-bay three-storey west elevation. Now in use as college. Pitched slate roof with raised barge to front (north) elevation having dressed stone coping and carved stone cross finial to apex. Moulded brick eaves course to west elevation. Recent rooflights. Red brick laid in Flemish bond to walls, with granite plinth course. Square-headed window openings with flush granite lintels, bull-nosed reveals and red brick block-and-start surrounds. Sills set within continuous flush granite sill courses to first and second floors and chamfered granite sill course to ground floor. Sill courses carried across western elevation in yellow brick. Tudor-arched porch opening with carved granite surround, label moulding and steps, having granite crest over. Tudor-arched door opening set within porch, having moulded surround and timber battened door with decorative strap hinges. Wrought-iron railings with cast-iron heads on granite plinth wall continuing around front site.
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