Edmund Rice House — Richmond Street North

Attached three-bay three-storey monastery over partly exposed basement, built 1828. Now in use as residence. Seven-bay elevation to side (south). Hipped artificial slate roof with rendered corbelled and shouldered chimneystacks, terracotta ridge tiles and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls having corbelled eaves and rendered quoins. Plaques to front (east) elevation commemorating beatification of Edmund Rice. Square-headed window openings with moulded rendered surrounds, sills and replacement uPVC windows throughout. Round-headed door opening within tooled stone surround comprising engaged Ionic pilasters with corniced capitals and archivolt supporting flat-headed entablature with recessed tympana and stepped cornice, keystone carrying religious insignia. Replacement timber panelled door flanked by flat pilasters with recessed panels and decorative leaded fanlight. Door approached via granite platform and five granite steps flanked by replacement wrought-iron handrails. Basement area bounded by replacement wrought-iron railings on moulded granite plinths. Located within walled site including chapel and school buildings. Grounds bounded by rendered wall with entrance gates at North Richmond Street comprising rendered piers on square plan having stepped cornices and flat caps, recent wrought-iron double-leaf gate. Pedestrian entrance to north comprising square-plan granite piers surmounted by granite frieze with incised lettering 'Edmund Rice House' and tripartite granite block entablature with cross over, in rendered wall with painted stone balustrade over. Adjoining school building to North Richmond Street, built c.1960, replacing original school building c.1830.