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Detached nine-bay three-storey house, c.1820, possibly over basement retaining early fenestration with three-bay three-storey breakfront having single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to centre ground floor. Subsequently in use as hotel. Extended, c.1920, comprising single-bay single-storey chapel return to south-west having single-bay single-storey apse to south-west on a polygonal plan, and single-bay single-storey lean-to recessed end bay to south-east forming extending into three-bay single-storey return to south-west to accommodate use as convent. Renovated and extended, post-1977, comprising five-bay single-storey flat-roofed parallel range along rear (south-west) elevation to re-accommodate use as hotel. Now disused. Hipped slate roof with clay ridge ties, rendered chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves. Flat roof to porch not visible behind parapet. Hipped gabled copper-clad roof to chapel (polygonal to apse) with flat roof sections, iron ridge tiles, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves. Lean-to corrugated-asbestos roof to end bay/return with iron rainwater goods on timber eaves. Flat felt roof to parallel range with plastic rainwater goods on timber eaves. Painted rendered walls (channelled to ground floor) with rendered dressings including two-storey pilasters to breakfront, and moulded stringcourse to openings to top floor. Painted rendered walls to porch with moulded rendered cornice having profiled parapet over. Square-headed window openings (most paired with some in tripartite arrangement) and some round-headed window openings with stone sills. 1/1 and 6/6 timber sash windows with some replacement timber casement windows, post-1977, to rear (south-west) elevation. Lancet window openings to chapel with chamfered sills, and fixed-pane leaded stained glass windows. Square-headed door opening to porch in elliptical-headed recess with glazed timber panelled double doors. Interior with timber panelled shutters to some window openings, and Corinthian columnar screen leading into chapel having open scissor truss timber roof construction to chapel. Set back from road in own grounds with tarmacadam forecourt, side (north-west) elevation fronting on to road, and enclosed concrete flagged courtyard to rear (south-west).
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