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Saint Joseph's Convent National School — Saint Brigid's Road

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Saint Joseph's Convent National School — Saint Brigid's Road
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Detached seven-bay two-storey former school, built c.1900, with gabled entrance porch to front (west) elevation. Five-bay single-storey recent outbuilding to rear with pitched artificial slate roof, snecked limestone walls and square-headed openings with concrete sills. Currently disused. Pitched slate roofs with cut-stone stepped copings, moulded yellow brick eaves course, terracotta ridge tiles, yellow brick chimneystacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Wrought-iron finial to porch. Snecked rock-faced rusticated limestone walls with name plaque, yellow brick quoins, and plinth course with yellow brick coping. Segmental-headed window openings with brick block-and-start surrounds, dressed limestone sills and replacement uPVC sliding sash windows. Oculi to gables. Infilled segmental-headed door opening to south side of porch, with moulded yellow brick surround. Driveway and garden to front, with roughcast rendered boundary wall.

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