Saint Patrick's College

Attached five-bay single-storey building with attic, c.1860, with single-bay single-storey end bay to left and five-bay two-storey parallel block with double-attic to rear (north-west) having four-bay single-storey wing to left (south-west). Refenestrated, c.1930. Renovated, c.1980. Gable-ended roof with slate (gabled to attic window to entrance block to south-east; hipped to end bay). Clay ridge tiles. Replacement glazed rooflight, c.1980, to ridge to double attic with corrugated-iron roof. Cut-stone chimney stack running parallel to ridge with rounded ends. Cut-stone coping to gables. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Irregular coursed squared rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings (paired). Cut-stone dressings. Replacement iron casement windows, c.1930. Square-headed door opening. Timber panelled door. Overlight. Set in grounds shared with Saint Patrick’s College.

This building, forming part of Saint Patrick’s House, is an attractive and imposing rubble stone building of picturesque massing. The juxtaposition of single- and two-storey ranges with single and double attics in steeply pitched roofs produces a somewhat Germanic visual effect that distinguishes the composition in its surroundings. The building is of social and historical interest, representing the continued development and expansion of the college grounds in the mid nineteenth century. The construction in squared rubble stone is a feature shared in common with many further buildings in the complex and attests to the high quality of stone masonry traditionally practised in the building of the college. The building retains many important early or original features and materials, including slate roofs with cast-iron rainwater goods, while the replacement iron casement windows are an attractive addition to the composition that ought to be retained in the course of any future renovation works.