Loreto Convent — Church Lane

Attached seven-bay two-storey over raised basement building with dormer attic, built 1868, built as return wing to convent with single-bay two-storey lean-to lower flanking bay with half-dormer attic to east. Now in use as hostel. Pitched slate roof (lean-to to flanking bay) with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stacks, cut-stone coping to gables having cross finials to apexes, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-stone eaves having cut-granite corbels. Broken coursed tooled cut-limestone walls with granite ashlar quoins to corners, and cut-granite stringcourse to first floor. Square-headed window openings to basement (some paired) with camber-headed window openings to remainder (oculus window to gable; square-headed window openings to flanking bay with round-headed window opening to half-dormer attic) having cut-granite sills on corbels, cut-granite surrounds (yellow brick block-and-start surrounds to flanking bay), cut-limestone voussoirs (some forming camber relieving arches over), and two-over-two timber sash windows. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set back from road in grounds shared with Good Shepherd Centre (Loreto Convent).