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Saint Patrick's Classical School — Academy Street

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Saint Patrick's Classical School — Academy Street
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Detached seven-bay two-storey former school, c.1840, with elliptical plan, inclined buttresses, classical niches, eaves course of paired timber brackets and tripartite sash windows. Converted to furniture factory, c.1975. Double-pitched roof, natural slates, two rendered chimney stacks with tall triple-flues, paired timber eaves brackets, lead rolled lead ridges, no gutters. Roughcast rendered walls with inclined nap rendered buttresses with inset aedicules, metal tie bar plate, brick structure. Limestone cills, ground floor openings, round and point-headed - some altered first floor Wyatt-style sash windows and eight over eight pane sash window openings. Rubble stone boundary wall to south-east with concrete buttresses, low concrete block wall to north-east.

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