Survey Data
Reg No
14010044
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Historical, Social
Previous Name
Violet Hill
Original Use
House
In Use As
Convent/nunnery
Date
1780 - 1840
Coordinates
287697, 267447
Date Recorded
15/09/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house, c.1790, with round-headed stone doorcase and curved bow at rear. Two-bay two-storey side extension, c.1820. Various single and two-storey additions, including school buildings, c.1980. Entrance gateway with octagonal stone piers, c.1840. Double-pitched roof, natural slates, iron gutters. Rendered ruled and lined walls - 1900's, rough dash rendered - rear. Stone cills, uPVC casement windows, unusual stone doorcase consisting of quarter columns, carved inpost - lintel and archivolt. Sheet glass fanlight. Glazed aluminium doors and hardwood inner door. Gateway consisting of octagonal stone piers with caps, pair of cast-iron gates and rendered curved walls, c.1840, low boundary wall with wrought-iron railings and pair of gates, c.1950.