Former Monastery / Clergy House at the Catholic Church of St Mary

Monastery / clergy house. Coursed dressed rubble stone, ashlar dressings, plinth. Slate roof with overhanging eaves, decorative ridge tiles, ridge stacks. Wide small pane casement windows (replacements). 4-bay 3-storey main block facing SE, tripartite windows 24 pane transom gabled dormers with flat heads, windows on ground and first floors 24 pane casements with relieving arches. Entrance to SW, 2-bay, pointed door to left, 16 pane window above, square 12 pane to second floor. To right similar windows but to ground and first floors. Pointed trefoil in gable. 2 ½ storey wing to rear left with cat-slide at ground floor, connects with church. Wide gabled 18-light dormer, similar window below with leaded lights. Ground floor with window to left. Attached to buttressed stone extension from church. Rear elevation to NW, various openings, all with yellow brick dressings. Rear wing with ground floor window. Main block with 2 at ground floor, 4 at first floor, centre windows both small. Single window to second floor with fire escape stair attached. NE elevation with two 16-pane windows to second floor. Single storey extension with gable stack and window, 24-pane window to SE, further lean-to added.

Axial plan with a corridor across the rear of the main block, repeated across each floor. Straight flight stair at NE end, later stair. Rooms to SE of corridor, Chapel on first floor of rear wing.