Mount Melleray Monastery — MOUNTMELLERAY

Attached five-bay two-storey seminary, established 1834, originally detached retaining original fenestration with three-bay two-storey side elevations. Extended, 1910, comprising three-bay two-storey recessed flanking block to left (west) extending into nine-bay two-storey return to north with twenty-bay two-storey perpendicular wing to left (west). Renovated, c.1985, with single-bay single-storey projecting glazed porch added to centre of original block. Hipped slate roof to original block (hipped roof to wing extending into pitched slate roofs on an L-shaped plan; hipped roof to porch) with clay and rolled lead ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods (on moulded rendered eaves to original block). Painted rendered, ruled and lined walls to front (south) elevation with rendered quoins to ends, wall-mounted cast-iron post box, c.1910, and unpainted rendered, ruled and lined walls to remainder. Square-headed window openings (some in bipartite arrangement to wing) with cut-stone sills, moulded rendered surrounds to original block, and rendered surrounds to wing. 6/6 timber sash windows with 1/1 timber sash windows to bipartite openings. Square-headed openings to porch with timber panelled double doors, overlight, and fixed-pane timber flanking lights. Elliptical-headed door opening to seminary with replacement glazed timber double doors, c.1985, sidelights, and overlight. Round-headed door opening to flanking block with three cut-limestone steps, timber panelled door, and overlight. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set back from road in own grounds with tarmacadam forecourt.