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Presentation Convent — O'Brien's Place

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Presentation Convent — O'Brien's Place
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Attached former convent, built c. 1880, comprising ten-bay three-storey block with advanced end bays, gable-fronted single-bay single-storey porch to front elevation and six-stage square-profile tower to north. Now in use as school. Hipped slate roof with dressed sandstone chimneystacks with dressed limestone quoins and carved limestone bracketed eaves course. Hipped slate roof to tower with cross finial and carved limestone bracketed eaves course. Pitched slate roof to porch with carved limestone cross finial. Dressed sandstone walls with dressed limestone quoins. Dressed limestone string course dividing ground and first floor and dressed limestone string courses to tower. Round-headed openings to upper floors, some paired, with dressed limestone block-and-start surrounds and sills and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Round-headed openings to ground floor with paired round-headed openings having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, oculus openings above and between all with carved limestone surrounds. Round-headed openings, single, paired and tripled to tower with dressed limestone block-and-start surrounds. Gabled chapel attached to north. Pitched slate roof, dressed sandstone walls and round-headed openings with dressed limestone surrounds.

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