St Anne'S Convent And Walls Attached

St. Anne's Convent and the attached walls is a house that was later converted into a convent, built around 1826 by Bonomi for Cuthbert Rippon of Stanhope Castle. In 1878, Dunn and Hansom made additions, including a second floor and chapel, along with other alterations. The building is constructed of coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings and has roofs made of Welsh slate. It features an irregular plan, with roughly U-shaped ranges surrounding a small yard, and is designed in the Tudor style.

The front of the building, facing the street, is two storeys high and has two gable ends that enclose a high wall, with an additional wall on the left. At the rear of the central yard, there is a four-bay range that includes two boarded doors with two-centred arches and drip moulds—one for pedestrians on the left and another for vehicles at the left of the yard. The house entrance, located to the right of the yard, has a ledged boarded door set in a shouldered surround beneath a stepped wall topped with a stone cross finial.

The left gable features irregular fenestration with square-headed stone-mullioned windows, which include one and two segment-headed lights, along with a gable peak that has a tall chimney. The right gable has two small rectangular chamfered lights at ground level and six lancets above. The gables and walls are adorned with roll-moulded copings. The rear yard range has windows similar to those in the left gable, arranged in three bays, with a fourth bay that includes an extruded staircase wing designed in a similar style. There are three bargeboarded dormers, and all chimneys are made of stone with conjoined rounded shafts and steep coping.