House, now research centre for Boots plc. C13, 1777, C19, C20. Red brick, ashlar dressings. 1777 house with hipped slate roof. 2 lateral and 2 ridge red brick stacks. Moulded cornice with a moulded pediment to the single, central, projecting bay. Ashlar plinth. Two and a half storeys, 5 bays with ground and first floor sill bands and first floor band. Central projecting C19 closed porch with moulded pediment. Panelled door with decorative glazing bar overlight flanked by single pilasters. The side walls each have single arched sashes each with moulded architrave and continuous impost and sill bands. Inner panelled double door with fanlight. Either side are single arched glazing bar sashes each with moulded architrave and continuous impost band. To the right and left are 2 glazing bar sashes with flush wedge brick lintels. Above is a single central, widely spaced, Venetian style window. The central arched glazing bar sash with moulded architrave and continuous impost bands. The flanking single glazing bar sashes with flush wedge brick lintels. Either side are 2 glazing bar sashes with flush wedge brick lintels. Above, single central Diocletian glazing bar sash window. Either side are 2 small glazing bar sashes, that immediately left being a Yorkshire sash. All with flush wedge brick lintels. To the left and right, slightly set back, are C19 red brick extensions with hipped slate roofs, of one and a half storeys, 2 bays. The left wing, built over the foundations of the south west tower of the church, with 2 red brick stacks is set on an ashlar plinth and has a moulded cornice. The right bay has a first floor band and a ground floor sill band, the left bay projects and has a continuous ground floor sill band. Single arched panel with single arched sash with lateral glazing bars. To the left is a single glazing bar sash. Above is a single oeil de boeuf with decorative glazing bars and moulded surround. To the left is a single small glazing bar sash. Both sashes in this bay with flush wedge brick lintels. Attached to the left is the church, listed as a separate item. The wing to the right corresponds, however there is a single stack and in place of the arched sash is a doorway with panelled door and fanlight. Projecting from the right is a small C20 single storey red brick wing. Attached to the right is a further red brick wing with hipped slate roof and single red brick stack. Set on a brick plinth. One and a half storeys, 4 bays. Single projecting bay topped with a brick pediment having a single blind window. To the right, set back, is a single similar blind window, and further right, set back, is a single small casement. To the left, set back, is a single glazing bar sash. In the pediment is a round arched opening with moulded surround. Further right is a dressed coursed rubble brick and slate, single storey, 2 bay wing, the right bay being lower with a hipped roof and set over a stream, having 2 red brick arches with single central brick cutwater. Rear of 1777 build has central two and a half storey projecting polygonal single bay with 3 glazed double doors and overlights. Either side are 2 glazing bar sashes. Above are 7 similar sashes. On the top floor, are 7 small glazing bar sashes. All openings with flush wedge brick lintels. To the left and right are one and a half storey, 2 bay C19 wings. Set on ashlar plinths with ground floor sill bands. The outer bays project. The left wing with 2 glazing bar sashes and 2 similar sashes above. The right wing corresponds, however the inner bay has a slightly projecting single storey porch with arched glazing bar door, flanked by single fixed lights. Door and lights are flanked by single pilasters rising from the sill. Above is a parapet. All windows have flush wedge brick lintels. Further right is the church. To the left, set back, is a later 2 storey, 4 bay wing with doorways and glazing bar sashes and further left a single storey 5 bay wing with altered openings. Interior. C13 undercroft of the west range of the cloister comprising 5 bays in a double width with circular columns and moulded capitals to the arcade and quadripartite vaulting. Dogleg staircase with stick balusters, carved tread ends and decorated cornice. 2 contemporary decorative fireplaces, one of marble and wood, the other of marble with blue John inlay, this room also has decorative cornice with dado, ceiling, chair rail with panelling under and doorcases. Built on the site of a monastery founded c.1119-39 by Ralph de Ayncourt for canons of the order of St Augustine. Dissolved 1534. Acquired 1539 by William Cooper who reconstructed the remains as a house. l643 fortified for Charles I. 1777 largely rebuilt for John Gilbert Cooper. 1884-1904 used as a Palace by the first Bishop of Southwell. (NCC/js)