St Walburga's Convent is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 March 1995. Convent.
St Walburga's Convent
- WRENN ID
- stranded-granite-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Lancaster and Wyre MP: Cat Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 March 1995
- Type
- Convent
- Address
- St Walburga's Convent, St Peter's Road
- OS grid reference
- SD 481 614
- Coordinates
- 54.04677, -2.79344
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Walburga's Convent is a Roman Catholic convent built between 1851 and 1853, designed by E.G. Paley in the Gothic Revival style. The building is constructed from snecked sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and features a slate roof. It has an L-shaped main structure with a cross-wing on the left and a rear corridor that connects to the Convent Chapel of St Peter's Cathedral on St Peter's Road.
The convent is two storeys high, with windows that all have chamfered mullions. The heads of the window lights are either trefoiled or have shouldered arches. The main range consists of three bays, featuring a single-storey canted bay window in the central bay and a four-light window to the right. The upper windows are through-eaves coped gabled dormers with configurations of two, three, and two lights. A moulded pointed doorway is located in the left-hand bay, and there is a single-light squint window at the angle with the cross-wing. The right-hand gable has chimneys and is coped with kneelers, positioned between the second and third bays.
The gable wall of the cross-wing includes a string course above two windows of two lights and a stepped three-light window beneath the coped gable. The left-hand return wall of the cross-wing has three bays, which include a single-storey canted bay window and dormers that light an attic storey.
Local climate
St Walburga's Convent sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,370 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings
Nearby listed buildings
- Cathedral House
- Cathedral School Including Attached Wall, Rilings and Doorway
- Cathedral Church of St Peter
- Perimeter Walls and Gateway of Roman Catholic Cemetery
- Cross in Roman Catholic Cemetery
- Mill 1, Moor Lane Mills South
- Royal Grammar School (Old School)
- Block 2, Moor Lane Mills North
- Mill Hall, Moor Lane Mill North
- Walls, Gate Piers and Gates to Town Hall Gardens