House

This house, now a monastery, was built in 1758 for the Silvertop family. It underwent modifications with a second floor added in 1811 and a north block constructed in 1865, both featuring dated rainwater heads. There have also been more recent extensions to the west. The building is made of squared tooled stone, with the second floor having tooled-and-margined stonework, and it has slate roofs. The 18th-century house is designed in an L-shape.

The entrance front, facing south, is divided into two parts. On the left is the south wing, which has three storeys and two bays. It features rusticated quoins, a chamfered plinth, and bands at the sill and first floor. There is a moulded eaves cornice below the second floor, which has a stepped eaves cornice. The ground and first floor windows are framed in architraves, with a later copy inserted between the ground floor windows. The windows are either plate-glass sashes or 20th-century casements, and the roof is hipped.

To the right is the end of a loggia supported by paired Tuscan antae, and to the left is a two-storey link to the Chapel. The right return of the south wing has five bays with similar window arrangements above the loggia, which has later glazing except in the first bay. There is a stepped and corniced ridge stack with conjoined shafts. The right part of the south front has seven bays, maintaining similar window details, but features glazed double doors in a pedimented doorcase in the fourth bay and a 19th-century alteration in bays six and seven, including a tall sash window in a moulded surround with a pedimented hood on brackets.

The east front has two storeys, with the lower part being taller and consisting of eight bays. The left part has a tripartite bay with Tuscan pilasters, while the projecting right part features tall ground-floor sashes in moulded surrounds with pedimented hoods on brackets. The north front has seven bays, with a five-bay section on the right projecting and featuring a large segmental bow. The later extensions to the right are not of interest.

Inside, there is high Victorian decoration in the Morning Room, Ballroom (formerly the library), and Chapel (formerly the dining room), which includes painted gilded coffered ceilings and carved chimneypieces by Lough.