The Nunnery

This is a house incorporating elements of a former nunnery, dated 1585. It has been altered and restored. The building is constructed of coursed squared sandstone with quoins, and has a stone slate roof. The layout is a T-shape, comprising a three-unit front range with a continuous outshut and a short rear wing. The house has three storeys. The front features a moulded Tudor-arched outer doorway with shields in the spandrels, inscribed "T:B" (left) and "I:B" (right), and the date "1585" above the doorway. A shallow, canted oriel window rises through two storeys, with recessed mullioned windows of 1 light plus 3 lights plus 1 light on each level. To the left, there are similar mullioned windows of 5 lights on each floor. To the right, king-mullion windows of 5 lights plus 5 lights and 4 lights plus 4 lights are present on each floor, along with a small light on each upper floor, in line with the chimney stack. A large chimney stack rises from the ridge with two diagonal flues, and another diagonal chimney is situated on an external stack at the right-hand gable. Gable copings are present, with an apex finial on the left gable. The left return wall features a 5-light window on each floor of the main range, a 2-light and a 3-light window to the outshut, and a single-light window near the apex. The right-hand wall has 2-light windows on each floor forward of the external chimney stack, and to the rear, 5, 3 and 1-light windows. The rear is mostly altered.

Inside, massive round-headed doorways are located at the front and rear of the first bay, aligning with the front door, indicating a former through-passage. A similar archway connects the rear of the stack between the first and second units. A very large Tudor-arched fireplace with a chamfered surround is found in the centre room, which was formerly single-storey but is now open to the first storey, with a gallery inserted. At the first-floor level, a Tudor-arched chamber fireplace is present, and near the front wall is an altered doorway that opens onto a spiral stone staircase rising to the second floor, likely representing remains of a former nunnery tower. Moulded plaster ceiling decoration is present in the parlour on the ground floor. In the rear wall at the second floor, two Tudor-arched doorways are visible, one of which is blocked, and appear to have been formerly external.