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Detached five-bay two-storey former laundry girls’ home, c.1840, on an L-shaped plan with two-bay two-storey gabled advanced end bay to right (north-west) and three-bay two-storey return to rear to south-west having five-bay single-storey double-pile wing to south-west. Mostly refenestrated, c.1990. Now in use as convent. Hipped and gable-ended roofs with slate (gabled to advanced end bay; double-pile (M-profile) to wing to south-west). Red clay ridge tiles. Roughcast chimney stacks. Cast-iron rainwater goods on eaves course. Roughcast walls. Painted. Cut-stone dressings to front (north-east) elevation including quoins to corners and coping to gable dot advanced end bay. Square-headed window openings (paired to front (north-east) elevation. Stone sills. Cut-stone block-and-start surrounds to front (north-east) elevation with cut-stone lintels. Replacement uPVC casement windows, c.1990, with some original 1/1 timber sash windows to return. Timber doorcase. Timber panelled door. Sidelights and overlights. Set back from road in grounds shared with Catholic church and convent to south-east. Hedge boundary to forecourt.
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