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Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception — High Hill Street

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Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception — High Hill Street
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Friary complex, established 1844, including: Attached three-bay four-storey over basement friary on a rectangular plan with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed advanced porch to ground floor; six-bay full-height rear (south) elevation. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with ridge tiles, coping to gables, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered slate flagged eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Rendered walls with rusticated cut-granite quoins to corners. Segmental-headed door opening approached by flight of three cut-granite steps, doorcase with monolithic pilasters centred on columns supporting hood moulding framing timber panelled double doors having fanlight. Square-headed flanking window openings in bipartite arrangement with cut-granite sills, timber mullions, and concealed dressings with hood mouldings on monolithic label stops framing six-over-six timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement with cut-granite sills, timber mullions, and moulded surrounds framing nine-over-nine or nine-over-six (top floor) timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings to rear (south) elevation with cut-granite sills, and rendered "bas-relief" surrounds framing nine-over-nine or nine-over-six timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds shared with Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception.

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