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Saint Peter's College — Summerhill Road

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Saint Peter's College — Summerhill Road
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Attached seven-bay three-storey study hall-cum-dormitory with dormer attic, built 1878-9, on a rectangular plan. Pitched slate roof centred on flat roofs to window openings to dormer attic with clay ridge tiles, cut-granite coping to gables on cut-granite kneelers with wrought iron Cross finials to apexes, cement rendered buttressed off-central "wallhead" chimney stack to courtyard (north) elevation having cut-granite chamfered capping supporting terracotta pots with cement rendered central "wallhead" chimney stack to rear (south) elevation having capping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-granite eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Part repointed coursed rubble stone wall to courtyard (north) elevation with stepped buttresses to corners having cut-granite "slated" coping; cement rendered surface finish (remainder). Shallow triangular or pointed segmental-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and red brick block-and-start surrounds framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds shared with Saint Peter's College.

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