Carriglea Convent, Decies Without Drum, Whitechurch, Carriglea

1:Seven-bay two- and three-storey Tudor Revival House of local red sandstone, built 1827 for John Odell, with a single bay turreted centrepiece. Extensive return to the rear with quadrangle of outbuildings enclosing a central garden.

9:Getty aerial photograph,1956, shows the gardens laid out in formal beds with fountain to the front, still extant, and terraced lawn to south-west, now partly-occupied by modern tennis court;surrounded by mature woodland, gazebos to the north and west of main house and a saw-tooth hedge to north-east boundary, now partly intact.

Open woodland of oak, beech, ash and spruce; impressive specimens possibly contemporaneous with main house; large monkey puzzle to north of terrace.

6:Courtyard of outbuildings, pre-1843, to rear of house.

7:Additional outbuildings built c.1915 to west of house.

8:Walled garden, c.1915, to west of house.

10:Productive gardens, c.1904, developed by the Bon Sauveur Sisters; farm buildings, glasshouses and extensive productive gardens and orchards to west of house.

11:Glasshouses, c.1904, to west of house in walled garden area, running east to west in line with farm buildings and barns.

Parkland to all sides with copses and specimen trees added by map of OS 25”

12:Shelterbelt to south, pre-1843, partly intact, with woodland and clumps (only one now remaining) to north and south of house; shelterbelt to eastern boundary of demense by 1906, not largely gone, including fine stands of mature trees with glades and paths; more recent mixed- deciduous and coniferous planting.

Fields in tillage to north-east and south.

14:Main access, pre-1943, from south-east, subsequently altered and moved to west with section cut through rock, pre-1906; access from north, pre-1843, gone by c.2000.

4:Single-storey sandstone lodge to south.

5:Ashlar piers and decorative wrought-iron gates with pair of pedestrian gates.

Entrance from north, pre-1843, evident on maps up to 1929 but now longer extant.

Bounded by public road to south with low rubble-stone walls; originally shelterbelts to south, pre-1843, and to east by 1906.

2:Impressive Tudor Revival-style chapel to east of house, c.1915, by WH Byrne Architect.

3:Identified as a 'Presbytery on 1929 OS Map, built c.1915, as part of the Bon Sauveur Convent to south of house, along original approach.

13:Mortuary Chapel and cemetery to north of main building accessed through woodland.