Friary of St Francis is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 January 1970. Friary. 5 related planning applications.
Friary of St Francis
- WRENN ID
- unlit-lime-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 January 1970
- Type
- Friary
- Address
- Friary of St Francis, 47, Francis Street Sw1, City of Westminster, SW1P 1QR
- OS grid reference
- TQ 292 789
- Coordinates
- 51.49431, -0.13926
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Friary of St Francis is a Franciscan friary located on Francis Street in the City of Westminster. It was built in the mid-19th century and features yellow brick, which is painted at the ground floor. The building has three storeys, an attic, and a basement, and it is seven windows wide, designed in a free early Renaissance style.
The ground floor is recessed behind a round-arched arcade, which includes simplified capitals and drum piers, with paterae in the spandrels. The central entrance is arched, while the windows on the first and second floors are round-headed and arranged in pairs, with shared gauged work that rises to a point between them. There is a brick band above the second floor, and a corbel table at the eaves with triplet windows at intervals. To the left, there is a full-height canted bay. A bronze figure of St Francis is set at first floor level on the corner of the facade.
Local climate
Friary of St Francis sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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