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Convent of the Sisters of Charity — Lady Lane

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Convent of the Sisters of Charity — Lady Lane
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Attached three-bay double-height Methodist chapel, c.1815, originally detached retaining early fenestration with three-bay double-height side elevation to north-west, and single-bay double-height lower apse to north-east on a polygonal plan. Subsequently in use as convent chapel. Renovated, c.1990, with single-bay single-storey projecting glazed porch added to accommodate use as part of nursing home. Pitched (gable-fronted) slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered coping with cross finial to apex, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Painted roughcast walls with rendered quoins, band to eaves, and rendered gables. Pitched glazed roof to porch in uPVC frame. Square-headed window openings to ground floor with round-headed window openings over, all in round-headed recessed panels with stone sills. Timber casement windows to ground floor with decorative timber casement windows over having paired round-headed panes with roundel to arch. Oculus window openings to north-east with fixed-pane timber windows having quatrefoil motif. Round-headed door opening with replacement glazed timber door, c.1990, sidelight and overlight. Square-headed openings to porch with fixed-pane uPVC windows and glazed uPVC double doors. Set back from line of road in shared grounds.

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