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Marist College — Retreat Road

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Marist College — Retreat Road
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Detached three-bay three-storey over basement house, built c.1810, having an enclosed single-bay single-storey porch to the entrance front. Converted to secondary school, c.1900, with fourteen-bay three-storey over basement extension added to the southeast. Three two-bay breakfronts added to extension c.1943. Hipped natural slate roof with wide eaves and rendered chimneystacks to original building, pitched natural slate roof with rendered chimneystacks to extension. Cement rendered walls with raised cement quoins to corners of extension. Square-headed window openings with replacement windows, round-headed window to projecting porch. Square-headed doorcases with replacement doors to original building, square-headed doorcases to breakfronts of extension with rendered surrounds with overlights above. Set back from road in extensive landscaped school grounds with various late twentieth-century extensions to rear.

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