Presbytery Adjacent to Catholic Church of St Francis is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1985. Presbytery.
Presbytery Adjacent to Catholic Church of St Francis
- WRENN ID
- strange-balcony-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1985
- Type
- Presbytery
- OS grid reference
- TL 142 390
- Coordinates
- 52.03774, -0.33575
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The presbytery adjacent to the Catholic Church of St. Francis is a building dating from 1884, designed by S J Nicholl for Mrs. Lyne-Stephens of Thetford, Norfolk. It is constructed of red brick with ashlar dressings and features a clay tile roof with decorative ridge cresting. The building has a two-room plan and stands two storeys high with attics.
On the left side, there is a gabled bay that is two storeys and has attics, partly covered with fishscale tiles, while the gable is rendered. The ground and first floors of this bay have triple sash windows, and the attic has a single sash window. The right side features paired sash windows on the first floor, with a plaque above that reads "St George for England." The right attic includes a hipped dormer with a sash window. The attic windows and the upper part of the first-floor windows have glazing bars.
A six-panel door is located on the right side, flanked by single lights and topped with a decorative carved panel depicting a shield with the St. George cross. In the left corner of the house, there is a niche that contains a statue of St. George.
Local climate
Presbytery Adjacent to Catholic Church of St Francis sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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