The Abbey — Clane Road

Detached six-bay two-storey over basement Georgian Gothic-style house with dormer attic, c.1775, probably incorporating fabric of earlier house, 1697, with two-bay breakfront to front (south-east) elevation having three-bay single-storey over raised basement flat-roofed projecting porch to ground floor, three-bay two-storey side elevation to south-west and single-bay two-storey return to rear to north-west having single-bay three-storey engaged ‘tower’ to north and two-bay three-storey split-level projecting block to west. Renovated, c.1985. Now in use as monastery. Hipped roofs behind battlemented parapet walls with slate (gabled to dormer attic windows). Clay ridge tiles. Roughcast chimney stacks. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Flat-roofed to porch. Materials not visible behind battlemented parapet wall. Roughcast walls. Unpainted. Profiled section to side elevation to north-east continuing into chimney stack with advanced corner piers and ogee-headed and pointed-arch recessed panels. Two-storey pointed arch recessed panel to tower to north possibly originally window opening. Decorative shields to top floor to tower to north. Cut-stone stringcourses to top floors. Roughcast battlemented parapet walls with finials to corners. Roughcast stepped parapet wall to breakfront. Rendered walls to porch. Painted. Cut-stone string/sill courses. Rendered battlemented parapet wall with cut-stone coping. Pointed-arch window openings to flanking bays of front (south-east) elevation. Stone sills. Early multi-pane timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings to remainder (some in bipartite and tripartite arrangements). Stone sills. Moulded hood mouldings over. Early 1/1 and 2/2 timber sash windows. Pointed-arch door openings. Rendered chamfered reveals. Timber panelled double doors with diagonal tongue-and-groove timber panels. Set in own extensive landscaped grounds with rear (north-west) elevation fronting on to road.