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Attached five-bay single-storey private (estate) Catholic chapel, c.1825, with single-bay two-stage entrance tower to centre on a square plan, and three-bay single-storey linking wing to north-east. In use as (parish) Catholic chapel, 1973. Decommissioned, 1983. Now disused. Pitched slate roof behind parapet (pitched slate roof to linking wing) with clay ridge tiles, cut-stone coping to gables having gabled finials to apexes rising into Fleur-de-Lys finials, and square-profiled cast-iron rainwater goods (remains of cast-iron rainwater goods to linking wing on rendered eaves). Roof to tower not visible behind parapet. Unpainted rendered, ruled and lined walls with tooled cut-limestone dressings including corner piers to tower (having slit-style and cross-style apertures) rising through paired stringcourses into battlemented parapets, battlemented parapets (on scalloped apron to tower) having cut-limestone coping (octagonal corner finials to tower), and remains of panelled stepped buttresses to linking wing having cut-limestone flanking shield plaques with hoods mouldings over. Pointed-arch window openings (pointed-arch window openings to side elevations with cut-limestone mullions forming bipartite arrangement having quatrefoil over) with cut-limestone sills, carved cut-limestone hood mouldings over, and fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Pointed-arch door opening with five cut-stone steps, timber panelled door having overlight, and rectangular recessed panel over. Grouped trefoil-headed openings to linking wing in tripartite arrangement originally approached by flight of five cut-limestone steps with cut-limestone surrounds having chamfered reveals, engaged colonette mullions supporting shared hood moulding, and timber panelled door having overlight (flanking window openings now blocked-up). Set back from road in grounds shared with Jenkinstown House. (ii) Attached two-bay three-storey house, reconstructed post-1988, to north-east on a square plan incorporating fabric salvaged from earlier house, c.1825-50, on site. Hipped slate roof behind parapet with clay ridge tiles, cut-limestone chimney stacks, and concealed cast-iron rainwater goods. Tooled limestone ashlar walls with cut-limestone dressings including stringcourse supporting battlemented parapet, and sections of unpainted rendered, ruled and lined walls. Pointed-arch window openings to ground floor, trefoil-headed window openings to first floor, square-headed window openings to top floor with cut-limestone surrounds having chamfered reveals, hood mouldings over supporting tooled cut-limestone voussoirs, and timber casement windows having overlights. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings.
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