Saint Patrick's College

Detached single-bay single-storey gable-fronted building, built 1902, with four-bay single-storey side elevations to north-east and to south-west. Gable-ended (gable-fronted) roof with slate. Clay ridge tiles. Square rooflights. Cast-iron rainwater goods on eaves course. Irregular coursed squared limestone walls. Cut-stone dressings including stepped buttresses to side elevations to north-west and to south-east. Pointed-arch door opening. Cut-stone block-and-start surround with rubble stone relieving arch over. Tongue-and-groove timber panelled door. Set in grounds shared with Saint Patrick’s College.

This building is an attractive small-scale block of picturesque quality. Presenting the appearance of a chapel, the building is unusually without window openings, resulting in a sombre exterior relieved only through the use of intermediary stepped buttresses to the long walls to north-west and to south-east. The buttresses, together with the remainder of the structure composed of squared rubble limestone, is a good example of the high quality of stone masonry traditionally employed in the development of the college complex. The building retains many important original features and materials, including the fitting to the door opening and a slate roof having cast-iron rainwater goods. Of some social and historical significance, the building represents the continued expansion of the college in the early twentieth century.