Poor Clare's Convent, Railway Road, DROMNEAVANE, Kenmare, KERRY

Description

Detached U-plan seven-bay two-storey Gothic Revival style convent with dormer attic, founded 1862, comprising three-bay two-storey central block with single-bay two-storey gabled bay to centre having stepped buttresses, iron-clad octagonal spirelet to apex, single-bay two-storey gabled projecting flanking entrance bays with diagonal stepped buttresses and single-bay two-storey gabled projecting end bays. Three-bay two-storey side elevations. Two-bay single-storey recessed wing with half-dormer attic to south. Twelve-bay two-storey return with dormer attic to north-east. Six-bay two-storey return to south-east. Vacated in 1993. Undergoing renovation in 1998. Steeply pitched slate roof with remains of cast-iron ridge comb, hipped roofs to dormers having eight-pane timber casements, cast-iron profiled gutters with iron heads, hoppers, drain pipes and metal sheeted cupola. Ruled-and-lined rendered walls with painted corner diagonal buttresses to breakfronts. Flat and pointed heads to openings, having paired and tripled mullioned windows with iron framed multiple paned windows. Stepped reveals and hood mouldings to pointed-arched doorways. Detached five-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c. 1865, with round-headed door opening having hood moulding over and scalloped eaves, now disused. Set within its own grounds next to church.