Ursuline Convent School is a Grade II listed building in the Thanet local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1973. School. 16 related planning applications.
Ursuline Convent School
- WRENN ID
- quartered-span-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Thanet
- Constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich MP: Sir Roger Gale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1973
- Type
- School
- Address
- Ursuline Convent School, 225, Canterbury Road, Westgate-On-Sea, CT8 8LX
- OS grid reference
- TR 316 695
- Coordinates
- 51.37754, 1.32716
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Ursuline Convent School, built in 1886, was originally a private house, reportedly for a tea planter. The front of the building features 2 to 3 storeys of red brick with stone window dressings and three gables. It includes a mix of sash windows, modified Venetian windows, and windows with mullions and transoms. The ground floor has a porch with an open pediment that contains a moulded shell, supported by two plain Tuscan columns and two pilasters. The rear elevation also has three gables, two of which are curved. Inside, the building retains a good period interior, including a staircase with heavy carved balusters. The Parlour features a Neo-Jacobean plasterwork ceiling adorned with scrolls and putti, while the Library has a strapwork plastered ceiling. There are fireplaces with swag or scroll decorations, including one marble fireplace with pilasters shaped like terms and a swag frieze.
Local climate
Ursuline Convent School 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 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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- Related listed building consents — 16 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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