St Michaels Convent

St Michael's Convent is a convent built in 1889 by Leonard Stokes, with later additions including extensions to the south in 1965 by H Tompsett and Elisabeth Holliss. The building is constructed of buff-coloured brick in Flemish bond, with red brick dressings, and features a clay plain tile roof with gabled ends and deep swept eaves. It has plain brick axial, lateral, and gable-end stacks.

The convent has an L-shaped plan, with a northwest wing that was added to the convent church between 1922 and 1925. It is designed in a Domestic Revival-Queen Anne style and is two storeys tall with an attic. The nearly symmetrical five-bay west front includes large three-light ground floor sash windows with glazing bars, cambered red brick arches, and splayed jambs that are integrated into wide flat red brick buttresses between the windows, which terminate on the first floor. The central entrance features a wide canopy with a segmental pediment, and there is a doorway to the right with a band of casements on both sides. The first floor has six small two-light sash windows with glazing bars.

There are lateral stacks to the left and right of the centre, with a flat roof dormer between and a small pediment above. To the left, there is a wing with a wide dormer beside the stack and a gabled projection that contains a large Venetian-type window. A flat roof extension links the convent to the church to the west. The rear (east) side has later additions, and the 1965 extension is located at the southern end. The interior has not been inspected.