The Nuns Well, Rosemount House, Greyabbey, Newtownards, Co Down, BT22 2QA

A single storey building of oblong plan and domical form, built of sandstone, basalt, and slate rubble, partly rendered. Entrance faces approximately north. Entrance front is in a flat plane of segmental arched profile: built of snecked stonework, containing a segmental-arched entrance in the centre. Shaped sandstone voussoirs, three of them with a torus moulding to the reveal. Archway surmounted by a shaped keystone block bearing a sculpted human face in relief, in primitive style. Entrance wall surmounted by a concrete coping formed by the edge of the roof covering. Sides, curved rear, and domical roof of structure are covered with a concrete render, cracked and spalled in places to reveal the rubble stone carcase. The interior is a single cell space, clearly visible from the exterior through the open entrance, and is approached down one step to water level. Plan is rectangular at water level changing to coved plan above by means of corbelled rear corners; roof stone vaulted of domical form. A lead pipe emerges from rear wall into water; a rusted broken iron pipe projects from the right-hand wall. SETTING: The structure stands in the parkland pasture to the north of Rosemount House (Grey Abbey House), surrounded by mature trees but easily visible from the adjacent Cistercian abbey ruins. There is a small tree growing up against its west side.