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St Ursula's Convent School, Wigton
St Ursula's Convent School
locality:-   Burnfoot
locality:-   Wigton
civil parish:-   Wigton (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   school
coordinates:-   NY25754854
1Km square:-   NY2548
10Km square:-   NY24
references:-   Listed Buildings 2010


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BYW22.jpg (taken 27.7.2013)  

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  St Ursula's Convent School
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"ST URSULA'S CONVENT SCHOOL / / BURNFOOT / WIGTON / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 72017 / NY2575848545"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"House now private school. Early C19 with mid C19 extension for the Dalton family. Incised painted render walls with pilastered quoins on chamfered plinth and panel string course. Graduated Welsh slate roof, ashlar chimney stacks. 2 storeys, 3 bays with single-storey, 2-bay extension to right. Panelled door in reeded Tuscan porch with decorated frieze. Sash windows with glazing bars in painted stone surrounds. Extension has side entrance and round-headed sash windows with glazing bars. Rear wall of sandstone. Sash windows with glazing bars; larger round-headed staircase windows with intersecting glazing bars, all in painted stone surrounds. Further extensions to right are of no interest."

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