St Mary's Convent is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1951. House, convent, old peoples' home. 2 related planning applications.
St Mary's Convent
- WRENN ID
- iron-gateway-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Blaydon and Consett MP: Liz Twist (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 June 1951
- Type
- House, convent, old peoples' home
- Address
- St Mary's Convent, Ebchester Hill, DH8 0QD
- OS grid reference
- NZ 104 551
- Coordinates
- 54.89124, -1.83929
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Mary's Convent is a house that has been converted into a convent and old people's home, dating from the early to mid-18th century. The front and right side are finished with pebble-dash rendering, while the rear is made of coursed squared sandstone, featuring ashlar dressings and quoins. The building has a Welsh slate roof, complemented by an ashlar and yellow brick chimney, and stone gable coping. It is two storeys high with five bays. The entrance features a renewed door within a 20th-century porch, and there are sash windows with glazing bars set in architraves. The right gable has coping supported by moulded kneelers, and there is a ridge chimney. Inside, most rooms have window shutters, and there are some two-panelled cupboard doors. The dogleg staircase has a ramped grip handrail supported by column-and-vase balusters. There are 19th and 20th-century extensions to the left and rear, which are not of particular interest.
Local climate
St Mary's Convent receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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