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convent/nunnery — Society Street

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End of terrace five-bay three-storey limestone convent, built c.1860, with four-bay west side elevation, and having multiple-bay three-storey later extension, and multiple-bay single-storey flat-roofed extension to rear. Pitched slate roof with cut-stone chimneystack to east end, cut-stone eaves course, with some cast-iron rainwater goods. Coursed ashlar walls with cut-stone plinth. Round-headed window openings to ground floor, flanking entrance, with cut-stone voussoirs and rendered risers, having tripartite six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed window openings elsewhere, with cut-stone sills, having two-over-two horizontal pane timber sliding sash windows to top floor and to one opening of bottom floor, replacement uPVC windows elsewhere. Segmental-headed carriage-arch-type opening to middle bay, with cut-stone voussoirs, timber battened door flanked by timber battened panels, and with glazed overlights. Adjoined by school to west.

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