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Presentation Convent — Main Street

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Presentation Convent — Main Street
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Detached five-bay two-storey over raised basement convent, c.1890, on an L-shaped plan retaining early aspect with round-headed door opening approached by flight of steps and three-bay three-storey return to rear to north-east. Hipped roof on an L-shaped plan with slate. Clay ridge tiles. Rendered chimney stacks. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls. Ruled and lined. Unpainted. Stringcourse to ground floor. Rendered quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings. Rendered sills. Rendered block-and-start surrounds with keystones. 1/1 timber sash windows. Round-headed door opening approached by flight of steps. Moulded rendered doorcase with consoles. Timber panelled door. Decorative fanlight with moulded rendered archivolt. Set back from road in own grounds.

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