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Detached six-bay two-storey monastery, dated 1896, on a U-shaped plan possibly incorporating fabric of earlier house, pre-1871, comprising three-bay two-storey recessed range having two-bay two-storey double gable-fronted projecting block to left with pair of two-storey canted bay windows, and single-bay (two-bay deep) two-storey gabled projecting end bay to right having two-storey canted bay window). Hipped slate roof (continuing into double gabled (M-profile) roof to projecting bay to left; continuing into gabled roof to projecting bay to right) with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, decorative timber bargeboards to gables having finials, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Unpainted rendered, ruled and lined walls with cut-stone date stone. Square-headed window openings (including to canted bay windows having moulded stringcourses; some paired to side (west) elevation) with cut-limestone sills, and one-over-one timber sash windows. Paired round-headed window openings to first floor projecting end bay to left on rendered sill course with one-over-one timber sash windows having margins. Square-headed door opening in tripartite arrangement with timber panelled door having sidelights, and overlight. Elliptical-headed door opening to side (east) elevation with replacement timber panelled door having sidepanels, and fanlight. Square-headed door openings to rear (south) elevation with timber panelled doors having overlights. Set back from road in own grounds on an elevated site with landscaped grounds to site.
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