Octagonal Central Office Building at Her Majesty's Prison is a Grade II listed building in the Lambeth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 March 1981. Prison office building. 3 related planning applications.
Octagonal Central Office Building at Her Majesty's Prison
- WRENN ID
- unlit-chamber-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lambeth
- Constituency
- Clapham and Brixton Hill MP: Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 March 1981
- Type
- Prison office building
- Address
- Octagonal Central Office Building at Her Majesty's Prison, Jebb Avenue Sw2, SW2 5XF
- OS grid reference
- TQ 303 741
- Coordinates
- 51.45177, -0.12517
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Octagonal Central Office Building at Her Majesty's Prison, dating from around 1820, is a small two-storey structure made of dull red brick. It features a low-pitched slated roof with a rebuilt central octagonal chimney. On the north side, there is a square clock tower topped with a low pyramidal roof and bracketed eaves. The building has later stock brick buttresses at alternate angles and sash windows with glazing bars set in stucco-lined reveals beneath segmental brick arches. This building served as the former governor's house, from which the governor could observe prisoners working on the treadmills that were first introduced at Brixton Prison. The original treadmill buildings have since been replaced by a one-storey pentice surrounding the structure. The building is included in the register mainly for its historical significance.
Local climate
Octagonal Central Office Building at Her Majesty's Prison 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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