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Saint Jarlath's — Bishop Street

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Saint Jarlath's — Bishop Street
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Detached two-storey archbishop's house, built c.1870, in Italianate style, having five-bay front elevation to L-plan front block, with single-storey canted bay window to south end, four-bay block to rear at north end and five-bay block to rear at south end, latter having projection to accommodate stairs. Low-pitch hipped slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks and wide eaves with timber brackets and integrated moulded gutter, and decorative ridge with cross finials. Limestone cornice and blocking course to bay window. Cement-rendered walls with parallel quoins, moulded plinth, and limestone string course at first-floor sill level. Square-headed windows with moulded cement surrounds, limestone sills and replacement uPVC windows. Round-headed stairs window to south elevation with margined one-over-one pane timber sliding sash window. Wide square-headed doorcase with moulded limestone surround, six-panel timber door in moulded timber frame with stained-glass sidelights, and moulded limestone step.

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