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Gothic Revival convent complex, built in 1876 to a design by J.J. O' Callaghan, comprising four-bay two-storey convent abutting chapel to north, with nun's graveyard and walled orchard to south-west and gate lodge with gates to north. Now disused. Pitched slate roofs with coping to gable ends, stone cross finials, cut stone chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rock-faced stone walls with plinth, string course to top and bottom of ground floor windows, tooled stone quoins and projecting gable-fronted northern bay. Entrance to chapel with pointed-arched opening with timber panelled double doors with hoodmoulding, tooled stone surround and glazed fanlight with stone mullions. Two door openings to south elevation with tooled stone surrounds and replacement doors. One square-headed opening with sidelight the other shouldered-arched opening with tooled block-and-start limestone surround surmounted by paired windows. uPVC windows with tooled stone block-and-start surround, stone sills and chamfered reveals. Paired pointed-arched openings above door. Chapel with two-stage belfry, entrance porch to north. Pointed-arched stained glass windows to chapel and rose window. Graveyard bounded by rendered wall, cast-iron gates with rendered piers. Cast-iron cross grave markers, some in circular arrangement around stone cross. Random coursed wall surrounds orchard. Two-bay single-storey gate lodge with hipped slate roof, rendered chimneystack, rendered walls and replacement doors and windows. Cut stone gate piers with wrought-iron gates give access to convent complex.
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