The Old Convent is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 January 1976. House. 4 related planning applications.
The Old Convent
- WRENN ID
- leaning-storey-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Northampton South MP: Mike Reader (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 January 1976
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Convent, 29, High Street, Billing, NN3 9DT
- OS grid reference
- SP 811 627
- Coordinates
- 52.25708, -0.81322
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Convent is an early 19th century house built of dressed stone and covered by a Welsh slate roof, with gable end stone copings and a cyma recta stone cornice. The building is two storeys high with attics, arranged in an L-shaped plan. The south front has two box dormers, three sash windows with flat arches, and canted bay windows on the left side of the ground floor. A 19th century central doorway features an oblong fanlight, pilaster surround, frieze, and a cornice hood supported by brackets. A later projecting wing on the left has a taller window on the upper floor.
Local climate
The Old Convent sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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