Holy Family Convent — Naas Road

Detached nine-bay two-storey yellow brick convent, c.1850, possibly over basement on a U-shaped plan comprising five-bay two-storey central block with single-bay two-storey gabled advanced entrance bay to centre, two-bay two-storey gabled advanced flanking end bays, two-bay two-storey side elevations to north-east and to south-west, and pair of four-bay two-storey returns to rear to south-east. Hipped gabled roof with slate (gabled to entrance bay and to flanking end bays; hipped gabled to returns). Clay ridge tiles. Rendered chimney stacks. Cut-stone coping to gables with finials to apexes. Timber eaves and bargeboards. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Yellow brick Flemish bond walls. Vitrified black brick stringcourse to openings to ground floor. Cut-stone string/sill course to window openings to first floor. Cut-sandstone medallions to first floor entrance bay. Rendered walls to rear elevation to south-east. Unpainted. Pointed-arch window openings (in tripartite arrangement to ground floor to flanking end bays) in recessed surrounds. Cut-stone sills. Red and vitrified black brick dressings. Red brick lancet relieving arches to first floor to flanking end bays. 4/4 timber sash windows. Oculus openings to gables. Red and vitrified black brick surrounds. Cut-sandstone pierced fittings. Square-headed door opening in pointed-arch recess. Cut-stone shouldered doorcase. Replacement glazed timber panelled door, c.1980, with sidelights and overlights. Trefoil opening over in cut-stone surround. Decorative fixed-pane fitting. Octafoil opening to first floor in cut-sandstone medallion. Red brick and vitrified black brick dressings. Fixed-pane window. Set back from road in own grounds.