Saint Joseph's — Rathwire

Detached three-bay two-storey Roman Catholic parochial house, built c.1890, having an advanced gable-fronted breakfront to the centre of the main façade (south) and two-storey returns to the rear (north). Hipped natural slate roof, pitched over breakfront, having cast-iron rainwater goods and a central pair of rendered chimneystacks. Decorative pierced timber barge boards to gable-fronted bay and a wrought-iron cross finial over to roof apex. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth course with raised cut stone quoins to the corners. Projecting string course at first floor sill level and at lintel level to ground floor window openings (curved). Square-headed window openings to main body of building with cut stone sills, decorative rendered surrounds and replacement windows. Pointed-arched doorcase to front face of projecting breakfront (south) having moulded red brick surrounds and a timber panelled door. Pointed-arched window opening over having moulded red brick surround containing a Gothic window with Geometric tracery (comprising a pair of cusp-headed windows with a cinquefoil opening over) and stained glass. Set back from road in own grounds to the east side of Rathwire. Complex of single-storey outbuildings to the rear (north) having pitched natural slate and corrugated metal roofs, rendered walls and square-headed openings retaining timber sash windows and timber doors. Vernacular gate piers and wrought-iron bar gates to rear (north), giving access to field. Rubble limestone boundary walls to road frontage. Main entrance gates to the west, comprising a pair of openwork decorative cast-iron gate piers having cast-iron double gates. Gateway flanked to the north and the south by a low plinth wall having cast-iron railings over.