Whitefriars Museum is a Grade I listed building in the Coventry local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1955. A C14 Museum.
Whitefriars Museum
- WRENN ID
- keen-rampart-hyssop
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Coventry
- Constituency
- Coventry South MP: Zarah Sultana (YP)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1955
- Type
- Museum
- Address
- Whitefriars Museum, Gulson Road
- OS grid reference
- SP 340 786
- Coordinates
- 52.40509, -1.50158
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Whitefriars Museum, originally the Coventry Union Workhouse and formerly a Carmelite Priory founded around 1342, was dissolved in 1538 and later became a private dwelling for the Hales family until 1717. It was converted into a workhouse for the poor in 1804.
The building features a range on the east side of the former cloister, measuring 46 metres long. It is constructed of ashlar and has two storeys with a tiled roof. There are buttresses with offsets, and the ground floor has pointed arched windows that open to the former cloister, which are complemented by ribbed cross vaults. The first floor, which was the former friars' dormitory, includes square-headed mullioned lattice casement windows and a canted oriel bay window.
The building was bombed in 1940 and underwent restoration between 1968 and 1969.
Local climate
Whitefriars Museum receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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