Convent of Saint John of God — Kilmore

Detached seven-bay two-storey convent with dormer attic, designed 1905; built 1905-8; opened 1908, on a cruciform plan centred on single-bay full-height gabled projecting breakfront; single-bay (single-bay deep) full-height central return (north). Occupied, 1911. Closed, 1987. Renovated, 1999, to accommodate alternative use. For sale, 2007. Pitched slate roof on a cruciform plan including gablets to window openings to dormer attic centred on pitched (gabled) slate roof (breakfront), roll moulded clay ridge tiles, cut-granite coping to gables on cut-granite "Cavetto" kneelers with rendered chimney stacks to apexes centred on paired rendered chimney stacks having "Cyma Recta"- or "Cyma Reversa"-detailed cornices below capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, trefoil-detailed timber bargeboards to gablets, paired rooflights to front (south) pitch, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-granite cornice retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined walls on cut-granite chamfered cushion course on rendered, ruled and lined plinth. Camber- or segmental-headed central door opening into convent. Camber- or segmental-headed window openings with cut-granite sills (ground floor) or cut-granite sill course (first floor), and concealed dressings having bull nose-detailed reveals framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing two-over-two timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds with rendered piers to perimeter having pyramidal capping supporting wrought iron double gates.