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The Monastery — Frances Street

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The Monastery — Frances Street
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What is recorded here

Terraced three-bay four-storey hotel, built c. 1820, subsequently used as Sisters of Mercy orphanage and later used as a Christian Brothers school (1874). Now in residential use. Rendered chimneystack and moulded roof parapet. Cut-limestone walls with string course to ground floor. Rendered walls with render quoins, decorative frieze and architraves to upper floors. Decorative render pediment over central first floor opening. Round-headed opening with timber panelled door and plain fanlight. Timber sliding sash windows. Retaining interior features. Cast-iron railings to site.

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