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Saint Aloysius's Monastery — Ramsgrange

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Saint Aloysius's Monastery — Ramsgrange
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Detached five-bay two-storey monastery, built 1892, on a rectangular plan. Vacant, 1901. Occupied, 1911. Closed, 1951. Renovated, ----, to accommodate continued private residential use. Pitched slate roof with roll moulded clay ridge tiles, off-central chimney stack having stringcourse below corbelled stepped capping supporting yellow terracotta pots, lichen-spotted "saddleback" coping to gables on cut-granite "Cavetto" kneelers with Cross finials to apexes, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Rendered walls on rendered chamfered plinth. Elliptical-headed off-central door opening with step threshold, and rendered surround with fluted pilasters supporting archivolt framing replacement glazed timber panelled door having sidelights below overlight. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing one-over-one timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds with roughcast-panelled rendered piers to perimeter having "Cavetto"-detailed pyramidal capping supporting wrought iron double gates.

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