Presentation Convent — William Street

The saved account records: Detached twelve-bay convent and chapel, built c.1894, with two-storey projecting gable-fronted bay with entrance doorways to front and rear elevations, and flanked by six-bay three-storey block to south and two-storey five-bay block to north with double-height first floor chapel and with canted apse to north end.

The saved account records: Three lean-to additions to rear elevation.

The saved account records: Pitched slate roof, multi-sided to north end and re-roofed in artificial slate to south.

The saved account records: Painted roughcast rendered boundary wall to street with pedestrian entrance arch and piers to driveway.

Presentation Convent — William Street matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: This large and well-maintained building retains much character due to sympathetic renovations and maintenance. The choice of different styles and materials for the windows, doors and surrounds of the convent and chapel, cleverly creates a distinction between the dual functions of this building. Its site is shared by the Catholic church of St Nicholas of Myra and forms a group with it, and the adjacent school. This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.