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Saint Joseph's Convent of Mercy — Chapel Lane

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Saint Joseph's Convent of Mercy — Chapel Lane
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Detached eleven-bay two-storey convent with dormer attic, c.1875, on a U-shaped plan comprising five-bay two-storey central block with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting glazed porch to centre ground floor, and three-bay two-storey gabled advanced flanking end bays having five-bay two-storey side elevations. Refenestrated. Now in use as nursing home. Pitched slate roofs on a U-shaped plan (gabled to dormer attic windows; gabled to porch) with decorative terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having chamfered coping, rendered coping to gables having finials to apexes, timber bargeboards to dormer attic windows and to porch having finial to apex, rooflights, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Painted rendered, ruled and lined walls. Shouldered square-headed window openings to ground floor, square-headed window openings to first floor in pointed-arch recesses (originally pointed-arch window openings), triangular-headed window openings to dormer attic (square-headed window openings to gables to end bays in camber-headed recesses) with cut-stone sills, and replacement uPVC casement windows. Square-headed openings to porch with replacement glazed uPVC panelled door, fixed-pane uPVC flanking lights on moulded rendered sill, and triangular overlight to gable having fixed-pane uPVC fitting. Set back from road in own grounds with random rubble limestone boundary wall to perimeter of site having chamfered coping, unpainted rendered piers having profiled octagonal 'finial' capping, iron double gates, and unpainted rendered surround to flanking pedestrian gateway having iron gate.

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