Presbytery at Catholic Church of St Joseph is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 21 January 1993. Presbytery.
Presbytery at Catholic Church of St Joseph
- WRENN ID
- peeling-banister-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Constituency
- Cardiff South and Penarth MP: Stephen Doughty (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 21 January 1993
- Type
- Presbytery
- Address
- Presbytery at Catholic Church of St Joseph, Penarth
- OS grid reference
- ST 179 718
- Coordinates
- 51.43923, -3.18172
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The presbytery at the Catholic Church of St Joseph is a substantial two-storey building dating from the 20th century. It features a central block with cross gables at each end, a slate roof, roughcast render, exposed stone quoins, and bathstone dressings and sills.
On the left side, there is a square chimney, with another chimney located at the rear of the gable, and a rectangular chimney positioned at right angles to the main ridge on the right side. Additionally, there is another rectangular chimney at right angles to the ridge of the right crosswing. The left gable extends down over a garage, which is a later extension. The first floor has three round-headed windows, while the ground floor has four. The central section features four square-headed windows at the eaves, which are asymmetrically placed.
The ground floor includes a shallow round-arched porch with the original entrance door, which has decorative strap hinges and a small pane window. There is one round-headed window to the left and two to the right of the porch. The right gable has three round-headed windows arranged in a 1 + 2 pattern, and on the ground floor, there is a projecting single-storey porch with a hipped roof. This porch has a round-arched entrance and two windows to the right, along with the original door.
The east elevation has four square-headed windows on the first floor, and on the ground floor, there are four round-headed windows, a smaller window to the left, and a round-headed door leading to the extension on the right, accompanied by a small window.
The west elevation features three square-headed windows on the first floor and three round-headed windows on the ground floor, along with two square-headed windows at the rear of the garage.
At the rear, the building has cross gables at each end, with the left (east) gable containing a single-storey block topped with a hipped roof and a small square window. Above the extension, there is a window on the right. Between the gables on the left, there are two square-headed windows on the first floor and two round-headed windows on the ground floor; to the right, there are two round-headed windows situated between the two floors.
Local climate
Presbytery at Catholic Church of St Joseph sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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