St Ursula's Convent School is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 April 1967. A Victorian School.
St Ursula's Convent School
- WRENN ID
- sacred-hall-azure
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 April 1967
- Type
- School
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- St Ursula's Convent School, Burnfoot, Wigton
- OS grid reference
- NY 257 485
- Coordinates
- 54.82613, -3.15731
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Ursula's Convent School is a house that has been converted into a private school. It dates from the early 19th century, with a mid-19th century extension added for the Dalton family. The building features incised painted render walls, pilastered quoins on a chamfered plinth, and a panel string course. It has a graduated Welsh slate roof and ashlar chimney stacks. The structure is two storeys high and consists of three bays, with a single-storey, two-bay extension to the right. The entrance includes a panelled door set in a reeded Tuscan porch with a decorated frieze. The windows are sash style with glazing bars, framed in painted stone surrounds. The extension has a side entrance and round-headed sash windows with glazing bars. The rear wall is made of sandstone and includes sash windows with glazing bars, as well as larger round-headed staircase windows featuring intersecting glazing bars, all in painted stone surrounds. Further extensions to the right are not of significant interest.
Local climate
St Ursula's Convent School sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,230 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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