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workhouse — Abbey Road

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Semi-detached six-bay two-storey former workhouse building, built c.1841, with c.1975 single-storey chapel extension. Now in use as convent. Pitched natural slate roof with stepped rendered chimneystacks and decorative bargeboards to end gables. Pebbledashed walls. Square-headed openings with stone sills and a number of remaining two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Located to rear of former Union Workhouse and now forming part of District Hospital.

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