St Margarets Convent And Attached Walls

St Margaret’s Convent is a house, dating to 1765, with 19th and 20th-century additions. It is constructed of rendered limestone ashlar, with freestone rusticated quoins and dressings, and has a stone slate roof, with a mansard to the main block and a pitched roof to the rear wing. There are moulded brick stacks to the gable ends and centre of the rear wing, with a particularly large stack to the front left. The building follows a two-unit plan, with a 19th-century rear right wing and a 20th-century chapel to the left.

The main block is two storeys high and has a symmetrical five-window front. Features include wide coped gables, a cornice, a parapet, a platband, and moulded architraves to the plate-glass sash windows. The central window is semicircular-arched with a keystone, imposts, and a datestone inscribed "1765". A 20th-century single-storey chapel is attached to the left return, with a hipped roof over a canted return featuring flat-arched windows, paired to the front and single-light to the return facets. A 20th-century hipped stone-slated colonnaded porch extends approximately 15 metres to the street. The interior has not been inspected.

Limestone ashlar walls, approximately 2 metres high, flank the porch and extend approximately 60 metres to the left and 50 metres to the right of the building.