Scoil Chormaic — Golden Road

Detached five-bay two-storey former house, built c.1780, with attic accommodation and having three-storey part three-bay and part five-bay rear elevation with central bowed stairs return. Front remodelled c.1870. Slightly recessed and slightly lower two-bay two-storey addition to east end with two-bay three-storey return and single-bay single-storey lean-to extension. Limestone portico to front elevation. House formerly in use as monastery, now school. Slate roofs throughout, pitched to main block and addition, hipped to return and conical to bow, with red brick chimneystacks. Cast-iron roof-lights, dressed limestone eaves course, terracotta ridge capping and dressed limestone copings to main block. Roughcast rendered walls with dressed limestone quoins to main block and render quoins to addition and dressed limestone sill courses to front elevation of both blocks. Square-headed window openings, having moulded limestone surrounds to front elevation, with limestone sills and replacement uPVC windows. Round-headed window opening to first floor of rear elevation. Square-headed door opening to front with timber panelled door approached by flight of limestone steps with cast-iron railings and having portico comprising rendered columns and engaged columns with carved limestone banding supporting rendered block with square-headed openings having fixed timber windows, dressed limestone cornice with religious statue above. Inserted square-headed door opening to lowest level of bow, having Diocletian window over with cut limestone sill and spoked glazing. Rendered and snecked dressed limestone boundary walls with cast-iron railings and gates.