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convent/nunnery — Weafer Street

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convent/nunnery — Weafer Street
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Attached five-bay two-storey convent, built 1878, on a rectangular plan probably originally two separate three-bay two-storey (east) or two-bay two-storey (west) houses. Vacated, 1969. Renovated, ----, to accommodate continued alternative use. Pitched slate roof behind parapet with clay ridge tiles, coping to gable (east) with rendered chimney stack to apex having stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and concealed rainwater goods retaining cast-iron octagonal hopper and downpipe. Rendered, ruled and lined walls with coping to parapet. Square-headed door opening (east) with concealed dressings framing glazed timber panelled door having overlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing one-over-one timber sash windows. Set back from line of street with cut-granite monolithic piers to perimeter having pyramidal capping supporting quatrefoil-detailed wrought iron gate.

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