Presbytery to Church of St Mary of Furness with Wall Connecting to Church is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 May 1976. Presbytery. 2 related planning applications.
Presbytery to Church of St Mary of Furness with Wall Connecting to Church
- WRENN ID
- under-rotunda-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Barrow and Furness MP: Michelle Scrogham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 May 1976
- Type
- Presbytery
- Address
- Presbytery to Church of St Mary of Furness with Wall Connecting to Church, Duke Street, LA14 1XW
- OS grid reference
- SD 195 694
- Coordinates
- 54.11497, -3.23236
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The presbytery to the Church of St Mary of Furness, along with a connecting wall, was built in the late 19th century by J Byrne of Liverpool. It is constructed from snecked red sandstone with ashlar dressings and features a slate roof. The building has a U-shaped plan and is two storeys high, with an asymmetrical, three-bay entrance front facing Duke Street, a five-bay right return, and a longer wing at the rear that connects to the church.
The entrance front includes a chamfered plinth and a rounded corner on the right, which is corbelled at the first floor. To the left of the centre, there is a quoined doorway featuring a double-chamfered pointed arch and a recessed door with a Gothic overlight. The windows in bays one and three have rounded sills and chamfered ashlar surrounds, with later casements. The window in bay three is positioned beneath a corbelled arch that supports a projecting stack, while the window in bay one is located below a canted oriel bay window with one large light flanked by two smaller lights. A rounded sill band at the first floor leads to a narrow sash window above the door, and there are stone gutter blocks.
Bay three features a gabled roof with gablet kneelers and ashlar copings, and its stack has a bricked-up slit, offsets, and a string course. The left end gable has a projecting stack and similar details. The right return has relieving arches over five ground-floor windows like those at the front, and a rounded sill band at the first floor leads to four two-light windows and two one-light windows, all with plain sashes. The right end gable mirrors the others and there are two ridge stacks. The front wall of the presbytery extends to the left as a screen wall, which steps down over a square-headed doorway and connects to the Church of St Mary of Furness.
Local climate
Presbytery to Church of St Mary of Furness with Wall Connecting to Church sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,670 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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