Lee House. Church of St William of York and Adjoining Presbytery is a Grade II listed building in the Ribble Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 November 1983. Church, presbytery.

Lee House. Church of St William of York and Adjoining Presbytery

WRENN ID
tenth-roof-plum
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ribble Valley
Constituency
Ribble Valley MP: Maya Ellis (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 November 1983
Type
Church, presbytery
OS grid reference
SD 615 401
Coordinates
53.85624, -2.58657
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lee House, the Church of St. William of York, and the adjoining presbytery are Roman Catholic buildings from the mid-19th century. The church features scored render with sandstone dressings and a slate roof. Its north and south walls have projecting quoins at the west end and consist of three bays. The windows are surrounded by chamfered plain stone, with hoods and wooden cross windows that have diamond-pattern glazing and 4-centred heads for the upper lights. The west wall includes a moulded doorway with a 4-centred head and hood, and above it is a chamfered plain stone window surround with a hood. The gable has a coping topped with a cross finial. The presbytery, which is attached to the east of the church, is constructed of squared sandstone and also has a slate roof. It is two storeys high and has two bays with end stacks. The windows are sashed with glazing bars, set in chamfered stone surrounds with hoods. The door on the west wall features a moulded stone surround with a cornice hood.

Local climate

Lee House. Church of St William of York and Adjoining Presbytery sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,310 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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