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Convent Court Apartments — Main Street

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Convent Court Apartments — Main Street
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Attached three-bay three-storey former convent extension, built c.1915, with recent full-width opening at ground floor as vehicular entrance to yard of main building, and four-bay single-storey over basement return facing vehicular passage. Now in use as apartments. Hipped slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods and stone eaves corbel. Squared and coursed quarry-faced sandstone with limestone ashlar block-and-start quoins and red brick window surrounds. Channel-jointed rendered piers to ground floor opening with rendered cornice at first floor level. Closely spaced window openings to first and second floors with limestone sills and six-over-six timber sliding sash windows, incorrect pane proportions at second floor windows showing these are recent replacements. Recent steel gate to vehicular entrance.

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