The Old Convent of St Teresa

The Old Convent of St Teresa is a former convent built in the late Gothic style, featuring painted roughcast walls with painted ashlar dressings and slate roofs. The building has two storeys and a basement, characterized by large mullioned windows set in chamfered rusticated frames. The ground floor windows have a mullion-and-transom design with moulded ogee heads above the top lights, and the glazing is made of small panes of timber.

The facade consists of four bays, with the entrance located to the left. There is a large projecting gabled bay with a coped gable, and a narrower projecting bay on the extreme right that features an embattled parapet and a recessed steep hipped roof topped with an apex finial. String courses run at both sill levels and above the ground floor.

Access to the entrance is via five steps between low coped walls, leading to a moulded segmental pointed doorway with a rusticated surround that extends up to the string course. A hoodmould frames a 3-light overdoor, which consists of two moulded segmental-pointed lights with a blank shield panel in between. The first floor features a 2-light window with 8-8-pane sashes.

The large projecting bay has a plinth with four square basement lights, a prominent 5-light window on the ground floor, and a 3-light window on the first floor, similar to the others but with blind ogee tracery above in the gable, which is ornately cusped and includes a hoodmould. The third bay has steps leading down to a basement door, with a 2-light window to the right, a 5-light window on the ground floor, and a 3-light and a single light window on the first floor.

The projecting bay to the right features basement windows in the side wall that open onto an area, with a plinth and ground and first floor windows similar to the others. The front has a 3-light window, while the left side has a 2-light window. Instead of a sill course on the first floor, the upper windows have blind rectangular panels beneath, with ogee tracery extending down to the lower string course. An additional string course is present at the main eaves level, just below the battlements.

A small red brick stack is located at the right end. The left end features a 20th-century window in the attic, a 2-light window on the first floor to the left, a cross-window on the ground floor, and a 2-light window in the basement. There is a hipped-roofed projection on the rear wall. Additionally, a limestone gatepier is attached at the southeast corner, topped with a gabled cap that matches those of the adjoining church.