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Fountain Resource Centre — Echlin Street

presbytery/parochial/curate's house
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Fountain Resource Centre — Echlin Street
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Attached five-bay three-storey over basement presbytery, built 1859, having return to rear (north) elevation. Now also in use as community resource centre. M-profile pitched artificial slate roof, rendered chimneystacks with clay chimney pots, terracotta ridge tiles, cast-iron rainwater goods and carved granite parapet to front (south) elevation. Red brick laid in Flemish bond to front, rendered walls to other elevations. Carved granite eaves course over lined-and-ruled render to basement level. Square-headed window openings with one-over-one pane and two-over-two pane timber sash windows and render sills to rear and east elevations and to basement level to front. Cast-iron railings to windows at basement level. Timber casement window to west elevation. Red brick voussoirs, granite sills, and replacement uPVC windows to front. Round-headed door opening with red brick voussoirs, painted carved doorcase having scrolled consoles supporting carved cornice, surrounding timber panelled door with plain fanlight, approached by granite platform and steps. Cast-iron railings on granite plinth wall surrounding basement area to front. Cast-iron coal-hole cover set in granite slab to front of door. Square-headed door opening with timber panelled door to east of return to rear. Rendered wall enclosing garden to front of house.

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