Survey Data

Reg No

21003127


Rating

Regional


Categories of Special Interest

Architectural, Social


Original Use

Orphanage/children's home


In Use As

Convent/nunnery


Date

1865 - 1870


Coordinates

83196, 114903


Date Recorded

21/07/1999


Date Updated

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Description

Detached nine-bay two-storey former orphanage with seven-bay two-storey wing to rear, built 1866, now in use as convent. Projecting glazed porch. Pitched natural slate roof with squared rubble sandstone chimneystacks, rooflights, gabled dormers, metal rainwater goods and ashlar gable apex stones with wrought-iron cross finials. Squared red sandstone rubble walls with tooled ashlar limestone quoins and canted plinth course. Timber sliding sash windows in groups of two or three with moulded ashlar mullions having segmental-arched rubble stone relieving arches over. Timber replacement dormer windows. Glazed doors to porch. Timber matchboard door with dressed stone segmental arch above.