Royal Waterloo Hospital is a Grade II listed building in the Lambeth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 May 1980. Hospital. 11 related planning applications.
Royal Waterloo Hospital
- WRENN ID
- drifting-pinnacle-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lambeth
- Constituency
- Vauxhall and Camberwell Green MP: Florence Eshalomi (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 May 1980
- Type
- Hospital
- Address
- Royal Waterloo Hospital, Waterloo Road, Se1, SE1 8TX
- OS grid reference
- TQ 310 801
- Coordinates
- 51.50529, -0.1131
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Royal Waterloo Hospital is a large building constructed in the late 19th century, designed by architect Sir Charles Nicholson. It features red brick with terra-cotta dressings and blue and green glazed tiles, topped with slated roofs and tall brick chimneys. The structure has gabled three-bay side sections that flank a seven-bay gabled center, which includes open arcading on three floors above a sunk basement. The arcading is made of terra-cotta and showcases patterned spandrels with inscriptions that indicate royal patronage. The ground floor features elliptical-arch closed arcading with decorative tympana, and similar decorative elements separate the floors in the side sections. The building has a curved corner where it meets Stamford Street, and tall wrought-iron area railings. At the north end, there are glazed brick piers topped with terra-cotta cornices and an overthrow with a lampholder.
Local climate
Royal Waterloo Hospital sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 11 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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