St Monica's Convent is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 March 1978. A Victorian Convent. 2 related planning applications.

St Monica's Convent

WRENN ID
leaning-entrance-rook
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Yorkshire
Constituency
Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 March 1978
Type
Convent
Period
Victorian
Address
St Monica's Convent, Gargrave Road, Skipton, BD23 1PJ
OS grid reference
SD 987 519
Coordinates
53.96373, -2.02038
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

St Monica's Convent is a probably mid-19th century, two-storey stone building featuring a steep slate roof with gables and a bell turret on the ridge. The building has pointed arched lancet windows arranged in pairs.

Local climate

St Monica's Convent sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,120 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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