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Detached three-bay two-storey gate lodge, built c.1880, having single-storey flat-roofed extension to west elevation. Now disused. Hipped artificial slate roof having terracotta ridge crestings, coving to eaves, red brick chimneystacks with projecting chimneybreasts to east and west elevations, having moulding and embellishment to brickwork. Some cast-iron rainwater goods. Red brick walls laid in English garden wall bond having cut limestone platband with carved cross detail to east elevation. Segmental-headed window openings having painted granite sills, and red brick voussoirs, chamfered reveals and six-over-six timber sash windows to front (north) elevation, ground floor. Segmental-headed door opening having red brick voussoirs, chamfered reveals and granite step, blocked opening. Pitched artificial slate canopy over entrance having terracotta ridge crestings, timber panelled barge boards and decorative timber brackets. Located on street, at entrance to former convent and industrial school, having garden to south and enclosure to north having later railings. Red brick gate piers to north, with cut limestone string course, and pointed limestone capping having decorative stone cross. Later metal gate piers with wrought-iron double-leaf entrance gates with cross finial, matching pedestrian gate.
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