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Saint Mary's National School — High Street

school, school master's house
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Saint Mary's National School — High Street
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Detached four-bay single-storey school, built in 1863, with projecting gable-fronted bay and gable-fronted girls' entrance to front (south) elevation, gable-fronted boys' entrance to east elevation with adjoining two-bay two-storey schoolmaster's house. Lean-to to rear (north) elevation. Set within grounds adjacent to modern school. Pitched slate roof with tooled limestone chimneystacks, limestone copings having fleurs-de-lis finials, openwork bellcote with cast-iron finial. Snecked limestone walls with tooled stone quoins and recessed inscribed plaque to front elevation. Square-headed openings with replacement windows in tooled limestone surrounds having stone mullions. Lancet openings to gable-fronted bay with replacement windows and tooled limestone surrounds having blind quatrefoil over. Trefoil openings to girl's entrance with limestone surrounds and fixed window, one blocked up. Triple lancet window to west elevation having tooled limestone surround and replacement windows. Square-headed openings to schoolmasters house with tooled limestone block-and-start surrounds, limestone sills and replacement windows. Pointed arch openings with tooled limestone surrounds and timber battened double doors. Carved limestone plaques over main entrance to porches. Pointed arch opening to lean-to having tooled limestone block-and-start surround with replacement timber battened door. Rubble limestone walls to site having pair of square-profile ashlar limestone piers with carved caps and single-leaf cast-iron gate.

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