Survey Data
Reg No
14009256
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Previous Name
De La Salle Monastery
Original Use
Monastery
In Use As
Garda station/constabulary barracks
Date
1950 - 1960
Coordinates
286646, 267990
Date Recorded
14/09/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Detached seven-bay two-storey former monastery, c.1955, with projecting end bays and Tuscan limestone portico. Former chapel at rear. Now in use as Garda station. Double-pitched, hipped and sprocketed roof, natural slates, wide overhanging eaves, cast-iron gutters, rendered chimney stacks. Rough dash rendered walls with nap rendered plinth and eaves bands. Concrete cills and patent reveals to hardwood casement windows and panelled doors, limestone Tuscan portico to timber panelled entrance door. Set back from street with low front boundary wall, pair of double garages at side.