Convent of St Mary at the Cross is a Grade II listed building in the Barnet local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 April 1983. Convent. 3 related planning applications.
Convent of St Mary at the Cross
- WRENN ID
- gentle-gable-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Barnet
- Constituency
- Hendon MP: David Pinto-Duschinsky (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 April 1983
- Type
- Convent
- Address
- Convent of St Mary at the Cross, Hale Lane, HA8 9PU
- OS grid reference
- TQ 199 927
- Coordinates
- 51.62051, -0.26819
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Convent of St Mary at the Cross, begun around 1874 and completed with the Chapel around 1893, features various late additions and was designed by James Brooks. This large, asymmetrical convent building, constructed in the late 19th century, is aligned on a north-south axis, with the Chapel located at the north end of the complex. Designed in a Gothic Revival style, the building has two storeys with attics, faced in red brick and accented with stone banding. The windows are traceried and made of stone, while the roofs are hipped and gabled, tiled, and set at varying levels according to the architectural elements. The Chapel, as originally built, consists of one aisle of a much larger intended design.
Local climate
Convent of St Mary at the Cross 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 — 1 transaction since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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