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Sisters of Mercy Convent — Rosscarbery

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Sisters of Mercy Convent — Rosscarbery
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Attached fourteen-bay two-storey with dormer attic convent, commenced 1894, having three projecting bays to front, comprising central entrance bay with flanking full-height bay windows. Projecting central stairwell block to rear (north). Later full-height pitched roofed extension surmounted by bellcote to side (west) with recent porch to front. Later single-bay two-storey pitched roofed extension to side (east) with recent lean-to porch to front. Hipped and pitched slate roofs having dressed limestone chimneystack, eaves course set on corbels, rooflights, fleur-de-lis ceramic ridge cresting and cast-iron rainwater goods. Render cruciform finials to eastern canted bay and rear stairwell block. Timber bargeboards to eastern connecting extension and rear dormer windows. Dressed roughly coursed stone walls with render quoins, having string course between ground and first floors. Pointed arch niches with stone sills and dressed voussoirs to central canted bay with render statues. Camber-headed window openings with stone sills, red brick block-and-start surrounds having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Replacement lead-lined stained glass windows to first floor of western canted bay. Square-headed window openings to dormers with single and bipartite one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Pointed arch window opening with stone sill to side (west) extension, having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash window with intersecting tracery to overlight. Square-headed window openings with stone sills and red brick block-and-start surrounds to first floor of side (east) extension, having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Round-headed window opening with stone sill and red brick block-and-start surrounds to rear elevation, having timber-framed tripartite window with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows and spoked fanlight. Camber-headed door opening to side (east) elevation of central entrance bay, having glazed timber door with overlight. Square-headed door openings to recent porches having glazed timber doors. Set within own extensive grounds, having rubble stone enclosing walls with capped square-profile gate piers and wrought-iron gates.

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