St. Eugene's Convent School, Francis Street, Londonderry, County Londonderry, BT48 7DS

Two storey, nine bay school building of rough-coursed squared local schist with Barony Glen sandstone dressings and chamfered projecting base. Built 1854. Gabled bay projecting at each end. Casement windows on ground floor and double pointed arch on first floor. Projecting central bay with pointed arch doorway, paired pointed arch windows to first floor with hipped slate roof with trefoil vents to each side and cupola above. Front elevation faces East onto Francis Street. The pointed arch entrance doorway with hood-moulding and label stops all in a breakfront with small trefoil pointed arch niches to either side. Either side of central bay are 3 square headed windows on ground and first floors and a cast-iron conservation rooflight to main slate roof. Sandstone string course between ground and first floors and to sill level on first floor of projecting bays. Projecting gabled bays have square headed triple light windows on ground floor and twin lancet with oculus plate tracery window on first floors. Gable wall of projecting bays extend above roof line with stone coping and kneeler stone to eaves, mid-ridge and apex with metal finial at apse end. West elevation faces onto school playground with projecting gabled end bays repeating the fenestration and window style of the East elevation. Projecting central bay has pointed arch entrance doorway flanked by side lights with hood-moulding and label-stops. Paired pointed arch windows to first floor sill course and hood-moulding with label-stops. Above is a circular plate tracery stained glass window with hood-moulding and label-stops and eight small quatrefoil cusps surrounding seven cusps at the centre. Gable walls of projecting bays extend above roof line with stone coping and kneeler stone to eaves, mid-ridge and apex with carved stone cross finial at apse end of central bay. North elevation; three bay with square headed casement windows to ground and first floors. Fire door to west end on ground and first floor with external metal fire escape staircase descending to ground level. Sill course to first floor. Stone cornice to eaves supported by stone corbels and cupola centred mid-ridge above. South elevation; repeated fenestration and window style of North elevation. Decorative two-hole crested ridge tiles with alternating roll top ridge tile to pitched slate roof. Three corniced sandstone chimneystacks centred on ridge of main roof with clay pots. Setting: Located on a triangular site to the East side of St Eugene's Cathedral grounds facing east onto Francis Street, behind railings onto pavement, with rear of school facing onto a bitmac schoolyard. The school forms part of a group of buildings on a prominent site to the North of the city, south of Brooke Park and with roads to all boundaries of the Cathedral complex. Materials: Roof: Slate with crested and rolled ridge tiles. Rainwater goods: Cast Iron Walling; Sandstone Windows: Timber casements Door: Timber panelled.