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Attached five-bay three-storey over basement house, built 1796-9, originally detached retaining original fenestration with three-bay three-storey pedimented breakfront and five-bay three-storey rear elevation to south-west having three-bay three-storey pedimented breakfront. Extended, 1809-1815, comprising ten-bay three-storey over basement lateral wings having two-bay three-storey advanced end bays (incorporating chapels) and thirty-two-bay three-storey over basement lower wings at right angles to south-west (completing U-shaped plan about a courtyard) with three-bay three-storey pedimented breakfronts. Gable-ended roof to original block and lateral wings with copper (gabled to pediments; hipped to end bays). Copper ridge tiles. Gable-ended roofs to wings to south-west behind parapet walls with slate (gabled to pediments). Clay ridge tiles. Rendered chimney stacks. Cast-iron rainwater goods on eaves course (modillion eaves course to original block and lateral wings). Rendered walls. Unpainted. Cut-stone dressings including quoins to corners to original block and string/sill course to first floor. Cut-stone dressings to pediment to original block with cast-iron clock to tympanum in cut-stone surround. Cut-stone dressings to wings to south-west including stringcourses and coping to parapet walls, and surrounds and medallions to pediments. Square-headed window openings (in tripartite arrangement to centre upper floors to original block). Stone sills. Cut-stone surrounds to some tripartite openings. Moulded surrounds to openings to first floor lateral wings. 6/6 timber sash windows (2/2 sidelights to tripartite openings). Round-headed door openings to original block. Cut-stone Ionic doorcases with moulded entablatures. Timber panelled doors. Sidelights. Decorative fanlights. Round-headed integral carriageways to lateral wings. Cut-stone advanced surrounds with keystones and moulded cornices. Round-headed door openings to breakfronts to wings to south-west. Cut-stone doorcases. Timber panelled doors. Sidelights. Decorative fanlights. Set back from road in grounds shared with Saint Patrick’s College. Arranged about a landscaped courtyard with lawns.
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