Saint Joseph's Convent of Mercy — Rochfortbridge

Attached seven-bay two-storey convent building, built c.1896, having an advanced gable-fronted section to the east end of the main elevation (south), a single-bay two-storey entrance bay to the centre of the main façade, a five-bay single-storey chapel, built c.1922, attached to the west end of the main elevation and a single-storey green/glass house attached to the east elevation. Now partially in use as a secondary school. Steeply pitched slate roofs with raised rendered verges to a number of the gable ends, brick eaves courses and with rendered chimneystacks. Celtic cross finial over apex of roof over advanced two-bay section to the east end of the main façade. Ruled-and-line rendered walls over projecting plinth. Pointed shallow segmental-headed window openings with stone sills and mainly replacement windows. Pointed-arched doorcase to the central projecting bay having a timber door with plain overlight. Doorway flanked to either side by pointed arched window openings with timber sash windows and by clasping buttresses. Cut stone string course forming a gable above main door having a quatrefoil motif to gable apex. Attached chapel to the west end of the main façade has Diocletian windows at clerestory level to sides of nave (north and south) and a pedimented entrance gable to the west having Diocletian windows and a projecting flat-roofed entrance porch with a round-headed doorcase. Set back from road in extensive mature grounds to the west side of Rochfortbridge. Main entrance gate to the south having a pair of dressed limestone gate piers (on square-plan) supporting a pair of cast-iron gates. Rendered boundary wall with stone coping to road-frontage (south).