The building appears on the 1842 Ordnance Survey six-inch map under the name 'Hyde Park', a label that implies a degree of Georgian confidence, and the bones of that earlier house survive at ground and basement level. Above them, something different took over.

The original structure dates to the late eighteenth century and follows a straightforward rectangular plan, three storeys over basement. The entrance front, facing north, was probably laid out across five bays, with a central doorway set within a three-bay breakfront, a slight projection of the facade designed to give the entrance added formality. The doorway itself is partly obscured by a later porch, but the arch above it still shows alternating voussoirs, the wedge-shaped stones of an arch, decorated with a fillet and rosette band. The porch, with its timber Ionic columns and rope-moulded oval panel, sits somewhere between the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century in character. The southern, or view, front runs to six bays, and at basement level a four-bay breakfront is picked out with limestone quoins and banding. That limestone detailing is significant, because it essentially disappears above the basement. The upper storeys, with their narrower windows and concrete sills, tell a different story. Inside, a curving staircase of late eighteenth-century elegance rises only as far as the first floor, where it gives way to pitch pine Victorian stairs of an entirely different sensibility. The working explanation for all of this is that around 1875 the house was substantially rebuilt when it was converted into a convent for the nuns associated with the adjacent St. Mary's Nursing Home. The Georgian shell was retained below, reworked above, and the building acquired its present layered, slightly mismatched character in the process. It is now disused.