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End-of-terrace three-bay three-storey former house, built c.1800, converted to convent and extended to rear (south-west) c.1860, having portico to front entrance, full-height bow to south-east gable, seven-bay two-storey wing to rear, with adjoining four-bay chapel. Pitched and hipped slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks, limestone bellcote to south-east elevation and cast-iron rainwater goods. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls, channelled rendered walls to ground floor of front elevation. Square-headed window openings, front elevation having moulded render surrounds, shouldered-and-kneed to first floor and pedimented to ground floor, with painted stone sills and replacement uPVC windows. Venetian-style entrance comprising round-headed doorway with rustcated jambs, flanked by square-headed sidelights, latter with cut-stone sills and replacement glazing, moulded cornice to openings, moulded archivolt with raised keystone, and timber panelled door. Portico comprises polished granite Doric columns with limestone plinths and capitals, surmounted by limestone entablature with plain frieze and carved cornice. Round-headed door opening to south-east elevation with painted cut-stone block-and-start surround and decorative keystone, with replacement uPVC door and fanlight. Chapel has four-bay nave with canted south-east altar end and canted entrance porch to south-west elevation. Pitched slate roof with carved limestone corbelled eaves course. Rendered walls with gabled buttresses to nave elevation. Double-light pointed arch stained-glass window openings having cut limestone block-and-start surrounds and carved limestone tracery forming trefoil-headed lights with trefoil light above. Convent set within its own grounds.
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