Bridgewater House — Main Street

Detached L-plan convent and chapel complex, comprising three-bay two-storey former house of c.1820 with glazed porch addition, L-plan block to west of 1893-5 having three-bay façade with entrance bay recessed between canted bay and gable front of chapel, and sixteen-bay three-storey with attic block to east. Now in use as social housing. Half-hipped roof to former house, hipped and pitched roofs to east and west blocks, with slate and artificial slate, with ridge cresting to chapel, rendered and red brick chimneystacks, cast-iron rainwater goods, and with recent flat-roofed dormers to east block. Former house has painted rendered walls with render quoins, platband, and empty niches to first floor, segmental-headed window openings with stone sills and timber sliding sash six-over-six pane windows, timber sliding sash one-over-one pane oriel window to former house, with timber apron panels. West block has square-headed window openings, one triple-light with block-and-start surround with stone sills and two-over-two pane sliding sash windows. Round-headed window openings to chapel,with stone tracery to rear and east walls, triple-light window with roll mouldings to façade, with dressed stone block-and-start surrounds. Rose window to chapel façade with stone tracery and roll moulding. Tripartite windows to south elevation of east block. Square-headed entrance opening to east block with dressed stone block-and-start surround, timber panelled door and mullion to overlight. Accessed via stone steps. Glazed entrance porch to former house with round-headed door opening with moulded surround. Rubble limestone boundary walls having coursed dressed limestone piers with moulded cornices and bases and wrought-iron double leaf entrance gates.