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Attached five-bay three-storey former convent, built c. 1840, having flanking two-bay two-storey wings to east and west ends, that to east having flat-roof single-storey addition to adjacent chapel to front and that to west having recent lean-to extension to front. Now in use as school. Hipped slate roof to main block with rendered chimneystacks, overhanging eaves and render eaves course. Pitched artificial slate roofs to wings. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls with render quoins. Square-headed window openings with cut limestone sills and replacement uPVC windows, and with one six-over-six pane timber sliding sash window retained to west elevation. Elliptical-headed doorcase with square-headed timber panelled door and decorative sidelights. Timber engaged columns to outer edges of doorcase with Ionic-style capitals, engaged timber colonnettes flanking door opening, decorative spoked fanlight, and decorative moulded render archivolt incorporating scrolled keystone. Limestone paving to threshold, fronted by terrace, leading to flight of carved limestone steps with decorative cast-iron railings, first step having carved curved ends.
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