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Detached irregular-plan multiple-bay three-storey former workhouse, built 1879, having full-height single-bay projections and three-bay three-storey extension with single-storey block to front (south) elevation, recent extensions to front and rear (north) elevations. Now in use as hostel. Hipped slate roof, red brick chimneystacks. Some cast-iron rainwater goods. Dressed calp limestone walls, block-and-start calp limestone quoins, stepped buttresses with block-and-start quoins. Brick patches to east and west elevations. Yellow brick and render walls to extensions to front. Square-headed window openings, red brick voussoirs and surrounds, concrete sills, replacement uPVC and aluminium windows, some having moulded render lintels. Stained glass window to ground floor to front, chapel to interior. Square-headed door openings to west elevations of extensions to front, yellow brick and render surrounds, half-glazed timber panelled doors.
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