Convent of Our Lady of Mercy is a Grade II* listed building in the Birmingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 April 1952. Convent. 6 related planning applications.
Convent of Our Lady of Mercy
- WRENN ID
- cold-turret-spring
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Birmingham
- Constituency
- Birmingham Perry Barr MP: Ayoub Khan (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 April 1952
- Type
- Convent
- Address
- Convent of Our Lady of Mercy, Hunters Road B19, B19 1EB
- OS grid reference
- SP 058 889
- Coordinates
- 52.49802, -1.91505
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Convent of Our Lady of Mercy, located on Hunter's Road in Lozells, was built between 1840 and 1841 and designed by architect Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin. This highly original and carefully detailed conventual building is constructed from red brick with stone dressings and features a simple and functional E-shaped plan, including a rear wing and cloister. The design reflects a straightforward Tudor-Gothic style, with some diapering in the brickwork. The building has stone-coped gable ends adorned with finials, steeply pitched slate roofs, and gabled dormers, along with external and ridge chimney stacks. The windows consist of simple stone mullioned casement and bay windows. The cloister at the rear has a simple exposed timber truss roof and tiled floors. The original chapel was destroyed during the war. The convent is part of a group of Pugin's innovatively designed religious houses.
Local climate
Convent of Our Lady of Mercy receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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 — 6 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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