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Mount Saint Vincent Convent — O'Connell Avenue

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Mount Saint Vincent Convent — O'Connell Avenue
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Attached nine-bay two-storey limestone former almshouse, built c. 1860, with a single-bay two-storey breakfront end bays and gabled central breakfront with angled corner buttresses, three-sided canted bay window with blocked-up limestone tracery and pointed arch opening above with Perpendicular Gothic tracery. Pitched artificial slate roof with intersecting gabled breakfront roofs. Elaborate limestone chimneystacks with stop-chamfered corners and emphatic stepped coping. Plain clay pots. Limestone corbels support cast-iron rainwater goods. Squared rubble limestone walls throughout with limestone ashlar dressing comprising quoins, gable parapet copings, and door and window surrounds. Mullioned square-headed window openings, limestone ashlar surround, flush canted limestone sills and uPVC windows throughout. Square-headed door opening with limestone ashlar surround, limestone step and tongued and grooved panelled timber door with wrought-iron hinges. Multi-paned overlight. Diamond window opening with coloured glass margin-paned light. Surviving examples of original window frame comprising one-over-one margin-paned timber sash window with coloured glass margins, located behind mullions. Multiple outbuildings to rear.

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