Care Choice Montenotte — Glanmire Road Middle

Detached twenty-four bay three-storey former convent building, built 1882, with dormer attic, central pedimented breakfront and gable-fronted projecting end bays attached to west. Now in use as nursing home. Pitched slate roof, with rendered chimneystacks and profiled cast-iron gutters on slightly projecting eaves course. Gable-fronted dormer windows to attics having painted timber bargeboards. Cut limestone coping to gables having cross finials to apexes. Ruled-and-lined rendered walls with cut limestone dressings and quoins to breakfronts to convent. Statue niche at attic level to central breakfront. Camber-headed window openings to ground and first floors under continuous hood mouldings with stone sills and timber casement windows with overlights. Square-headed window openings to second floor with stone sills and timber casement windows with overlights. Camber-headed door opening to centre under continuous hood moulding with timber double-leaf door under plain-glazed overlight. Two limestone steps to porch. Attached to double-pile multiple-bay four-storey house, built c.1820, with central breakfronts to north and south elevations. Hipped slate roofs. Rendered walls. Camber-headed door openings with stone sills and replacement uPVC windows. Detached three-bay single-storey former gate lodge, to south-west. Entrance porch to north elevation carried on timber struts mounted on rendered wall. Hipped slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Pitched slate roof to porch having timber bargeboards and timber tympanum. Ruled-and-lined rendered walls. Square-headed window openings, paired openings to front elevation, with stone sills and uPVC windows throughout. Square-headed door opening with uPVC door. Located to east of entrance gates comprising square-profile limestone gate piers with chamfered edges and stepped caps set in quadrant ashlar walls surmounted by cast-iron railings. Limestone wheel guards. Bounded by rubble stone walls.