Moate Carmelite Monastery — The Newtown

Detached eight-bay two-storey over basement house, built c.1800 and extended to the south and altered c.1870. Projecting single-bay gable-fronted breakfront, offset to the south side of the centre of the main façade (west). Now in use as a convent. Hipped natural slate roofs with four rendered chimneystacks having terracotta pots over and with cast-iron rainwater goods having decorative gutter supports. Pitched roof to gable-fronted breakfront having coping over gable and with a statue over apex. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered basement to main body of building. Smooth rendered finish to advanced breakfront. Square-headed window openings to the main body of building having cut stone sills and with eight-over-eight pane timber sliding sash windows to the first floor openings and Wyatt-style timber sliding sash windows to the ground floor openings. Triple graded segmental-headed window openings to the first floor of breakfront having timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed window openings to rear elevation (east), including six thirty-six pane timber windows to the ground floor. Round-headed doorcase to the second bay from the south having a moulded cut stone doorcase with a fluted keystone over and with a timber panelled door having a plain fanlight over. Square-headed doorcase to the north facing elevation reached by a flight over steps flanked by cast-iron railings. Low plinth wall with wrought-iron railings over to street-frontage (west). Set slightly back from the road to the west side of the Newtown suburb, Moate, and to the south of the associated Church of the Immaculate Conception (15317067).