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Fairmount House — Convent Road

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Fairmount House — Convent Road
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Detached ten-bay two-storey convent, post-1903, with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to ground floor. Extended, c.1950, comprising three-bay two-storey projecting end block to left. Now also in use as nursing home. Pitched slate roof (gabled to porch) with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having moulded coping on dentilated courses, cut-limestone coping to gables having cross finials to apexes, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Hipped roof to end bay with clay tile in diagonal courses, clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Painted rendered walls with rendered stringcourse to first floor main block, and rendered channelled piers to ends. Square-headed window openings (round-headed window openings to right ground floor) with cut-stone sills, and one-over-one timber sash windows. Interior with timber panelled reveals/shutters to window openings. Set back from road in own grounds on a slightly elevated site with landscaped grounds to site.

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