Saint Patrick's Monastery — Upper Chapel Street

Detached three-bay single-storey double-pile over part raised basement monastery with half-dormer attic, built 1890; dated 1890; extant 1895, on a rectangular plan originally two-bay single-storey on a square plan. "Improved", 1933, producing present composition. Closed, 2000. "Restored", 2003, to accommodate alternative use. Pitched double-pile (M-profile) slate roof including gablets to window openings to half-dormer attic centred on pitched (gabled) slate roof, part quatrefoil-perforated crested terracotta ridge tiles, cut-limestone coping to central gable with Cross finial to apex, timber bargeboards to gables on timber purlins with terracotta Cross finials to apexes, tuck pointed snecked rock faced limestone buttressed chimney stacks having cut-limestone "Cavetto" stringcourses below iron-covered chamfered capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on "Cavetto"-detailed exposed timber rafters retaining cast-iron downpipes. Dragged cut-limestone banded tuck pointed snecked rock faced limestone walls with drag edged rock faced hammered limestone flush quoins to corners. Square-headed off-central door opening in pointed segmental-headed recess approached by "perron" of ten cut-limestone steps with drag edged rock faced cut-limestone block-and-start surround framing diagonal timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled door having overlight. Square-headed window openings in tripartite arrangement (ground floor) with cut-limestone sills, mullions, and drag edged rock faced cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds framing replacement three-over-one timber sash windows. Paired square-headed window openings (half-dormer attic) with cut-limestone sills, and drag edged rock faced cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds framing replacement one-over-one timber sash windows. Set back from street in landscaped grounds with tuck pointed snecked rock faced limestone boundary wall to perimeter having dragged cut-limestone "saddleback" coping.