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Sacred Heart School — Castlebar Street

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Sacred Heart School — Castlebar Street
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Detached three-bay two-storey over basement house, extant 1825, on a cruciform plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to ground floor with three-bay two-storey rear (south-east) elevation centred on single-bay full-height breakfront on a bowed plan. "Improved", pre-1896. Extended, 1925, producing present composition to accommodate alternative use. Refenestrated. Hipped slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on half-conical slate roof (south-east) with pitched (gabled) slate roof to porch, clay ridge tiles, paired cement rendered central chimney stacks having cut-limestone stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on cut-limestone eaves retaining some cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Roughcast walls with rusticated quoins to corners. Hipped segmental-headed central door opening approached by flight of three cut-limestone steps supporting cast-iron bootscrapers, timber doorcase with panelled pilasters supporting cornice on consoles framing timber panelled double doors having four-over-four timber sash sidelights below fanlight. Central door opening into house. Square-headed window openings centred on square-headed window opening in tripartite arrangement (first floor) with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing six-over-six timber sash windows centred on six-over-six timber sash window having two-over-two sidelights. Square-headed window openings to rear (south-east) elevation including square-headed window openings in tripartite arrangement in segmental-headed recesses (ground floor), cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing one-over-one (ground floor) or six-over-six (first floor) timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds with drag edged tooled limestone ashlar piers to perimeter having stringcourses below "Cavetto"-detailed shallow pyramidal capping supporting cast-iron double gates.

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