St Marys Presbytery and Part of Franciscan Convent with Attached Garden Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Burnley local planning authority area, England. Presbytery, convent.

St Marys Presbytery and Part of Franciscan Convent with Attached Garden Wall

WRENN ID
slow-chamber-spring
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Burnley
Constituency
Burnley MP: Oliver Ryan (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Presbytery, convent
OS grid reference
SD 846 325
Coordinates
53.7886, -2.23417
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

St Mary's Presbytery and part of the Franciscan Convent, along with an attached garden wall, is a pair of town houses dating from the early 19th century, with a later 19th-century addition on the left. The buildings are primarily constructed of sandstone ashlar and feature a slate roof. The layout is double-depth, with the presbytery on the left being double-fronted and the convent single-fronted.

The structure is two storeys tall and has a total of five windows across the front, with the first bay slightly set back and a two-window extension to the left. Architectural details include a plinth, rusticated quoins, a moulded gutter cornice, and coped gables. The central doorway of the presbytery and the right-side doorway of the convent both have moulded architraves, cornices supported by scrolled consoles, and glazed and panelled doors with overlights. The windows are simply framed, with the presbytery's windows being sashed without glazing bars, while the convent's windows are now top-hung casements.

The left addition is made of coursed squared sandstone, set back from the main structure, and features one window on each floor to the left and a mid-level window to the right, all sashed without glazing bars. There are gable and ridge chimneys present.

The garden wall, which encloses the front and south sides of the long front gardens, is constructed of coursed squared sandstone with rounded coping. It stands approximately 2 meters high at the front and 3 meters high along most of the south side, with a ramp at the junction.

Local climate

St Marys Presbytery and Part of Franciscan Convent with Attached Garden Wall sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,250 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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