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Convent of the Sacred Heart — Convent Road

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Convent of the Sacred Heart — Convent Road
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Detached four-bay single-storey former gate lodge, built c.1850, with flat-roofed canted bay and gablets to front (south-east). Currently unoccupied. Pitched slate roof with timber clad overhanging eaves, rendered chimneystack and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings with rendered sills having timber casement windows. Square-headed door opening with glazed timber door flanked by multiple-pane side lights with render sills. Round-headed louvre opening to side (south-west) elevation. Snecked limestone enclosing wall to south-east with tooled limestone plinth, having chamfered limestone copings. Square-profile limestone gate and terminal piers with inscribed decorative panels, ornate pointed caps and single- and double-leaf cast-iron gates.

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