The Monastery — Clanchy Terrace

Detached two-storey former rectory, built c. 1880, having five-bay front elevation with slightly-projecting gable-fronted south end bay, canted bay window to south-east elevation, projecting gable to rear elevation, and three-bay two-storey flat-roofed extension c. 1970, to rear. Now in use as monastery. Pitched slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks, render eaves course, and cast-iron rainwater goods and brackets. Decorative carved timber bargeboards to gable-front. Rendered walls, smooth to ground floor and roughcast to first floor. Render platbands and plinth and render edging to first floor corners. Facer bond brick walls to extension. Square-headed openings with render surrounds, painted stone sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Two pointed arch stained-glass windows to first floor front, with timber surrounds. Round-headed openings to first floor of extension with coloured-glass windows. Square-headed openings to ground floor of extension with fixed timber windows. Square-headed entrance opening with half-glazed timber panelled door having render surround incorporating incised cross motif above. Outbuildings to south comprising former coach house and loft and coachman’s house. Coach house has pitched slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods, rubble stone walls, square-headed openings, one with four-over-four pane timber sliding sash window, timber lintels, and replacement timber battened and corrugated-iron doors. Coachman’s house has pitched corrugated-iron roof, cut limestone chimneystack and rubble stone walls. Dressed limestone rectangular-plan trough to site. Site surrounded by rendered walls having cast-iron gates and piers.