Mount Saint Nicholas Monastery

Detached five-bay two-storey house, built c.1820, with single-bay two-storey extension to east and three-bay two storey extension to west with first floor chapel of 1860, both slightly-recessed to front and rear elevations. Now in use as monastery. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted rendered ruled-and-lined walls with render quoins. Square-headed window openings, all having stone sills and replacement uPVC windows. Moulded render shouldered surrounds to front elevation, ground floor front windows having cornices and console brackets. Canted bay windows to rear elevation and Diocletian window to breakfront. Pointed-arch window openings to first floor of west extension, with stone sills, leaded and stained-glass windows. Square-headed principal doorway with moulded render surround and having segmental pediment with console brackets, timber panelled door with overlight and stone threshold. Pedimented breakfront with projecting porch to south (rear) elevation. Situated in landscaped riverside garden with tarmacadamed forecourt. Rendered piers to driveway and pedestrian entrance, with replacement wrought-iron gates. Roughcast rendered boundary walls to site.

Much character is retained to this mid-nineteenth-century house, despite the replacement of its windows. The addition of a chapel to the west gives additional interest to this house, and its current use as a monastery and centre for religious study creates links with the community and the adjacent CBS secondary school.