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Mount Saint Joseph Convent of Mercy — Convent Road

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Mount Saint Joseph Convent of Mercy — Convent Road
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Attached seven-bay three-storey two-pile former house, built c.1790, with canted central bay to north elevation, slightly advanced end bays and with bow to west end of rear pile. Part of complex of convent buildings. Now disused. Hipped artificial slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls with square-headed openings having timber sliding sash windows, mainly one-over-one pane with some three-over-six pane and six-over-six pane, some doubled to top floor, and some replacement timber windows, all with stone sills. Round window with petal tracery in canted bay and traceried pointed window with cut limestone block-and-start surround in south elevation. Timber battened door with cut-stone surround in south elevation. Steel fire escape staircase to east end of north elevation.

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