Presentation Convent — Meadow Road

Detached six-bay double-height national school, dated 1902, on a U-shaped plan retaining early aspect comprising four-bay double-height central block with lean-to cast-iron arcaded veranda along front (west) elevation, single-bay double-height gabled projecting flanking end bays and single-bay single-storey lean-to return to rear to east having two-bay single-storey flat-roofed wing (parallel to main block). Hipped and gable-ended (gable-fronted) roofs with slate (lean-to to return). Clay ridge tiles. Rendered chimney stacks. Cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves course. Lean-to roof to veranda. Glazed in cast-iron frame. Flat-roofed to wing to rear (east). Materials not visible. Rendered walls. Ruled and lined. Unpainted. Rendered dressings including quoins to corners, moulded rendered course to eaves and moulded rendered stringcourses to gables having moulded surrounds forming pediments with decorative terracotta panels to tympanums. Cut-stone date stone/plaque. Shallow segmental-headed window openings to central block. Rendered sills. 2/2 timber sash windows. Round-headed window openings to gabled end bays in tripartite arrangement. Rendered block-and-start surrounds to front (west) elevation. 2/2 timber sash windows (1/1 sidelights) with fixed-pane overlights. Square-headed door opening in advanced timber doorcase to north elevation of gabled projecting end bay to right (south). Glazed timber panelled double doors. Fixed-pane timber sidelights. Round-headed open arcade to veranda on cast-iron pillars having decorative brackets. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set in partitioned grounds shared with Presentation Convent complex with side (south) elevation fronting on to road, and central block elevated on rendered base approached by flight of steps having cast-iron piers and decorative iron railings.Section of decorative cast-iron railings, c.1905, to west on cut-stone plinth wall with decorative finials, cast-iron piers and decorative cast-iron double gates.