Former Convent of St Vincent is a Grade II listed building in the Watford local planning authority area, England. Convent.

Former Convent of St Vincent

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Watford
Constituency
Watford MP: Matt Turmaine (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Convent
Address
Former Convent of St Vincent, Percy Road
OS grid reference
TQ 108 963
Coordinates
51.65502, -0.39935
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Former Convent of St Vincent, built between 1890 and 1892, is a two-storey building with an attic, constructed from purple brick with red brick dressings in a Neo-late 17th century style. It features a tiled hipped roof adorned with eight pedimented dormers and a wood modillion cornice at the eaves. The windows are irregularly spaced and consist of glazing bar sashes set in gauged brick headed surrounds, with apron panels below the first-floor windows. The outer corners of the building have projecting brick angle quoins, which also separate a three-window section from the main nine-window block. A brick string course runs between the floors. The main doorway, which is stuccoed and positioned to the right, is framed by Ionic half-columns and an entablature, topped with a small open pedimented niche that contains a statue. At the rear, there is a later chapel built in purple brick, designed in the Perpendicular style.

Local climate

Former Convent of St Vincent 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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