40 and 42, Guildford Road is a Grade II listed building in the Lambeth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 October 1991. House. 10 related planning applications.
40 and 42, Guildford Road
- WRENN ID
- white-dormer-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lambeth
- Constituency
- Vauxhall and Camberwell Green MP: Florence Eshalomi (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 October 1991
- Type
- House
- Address
- 40 and 42, Guildford Road, SW8 2BU
- OS grid reference
- TQ 302 768
- Coordinates
- 51.47545, -0.12548
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 40 and 42 Guildford Road are a pair of houses built between 1843 and 1850 as part of a planned estate by John Snell. They are designed in the Italianate style and constructed from stock brick with a hipped slate roof and a central brick chimney stack. The buildings are two storeys high with a basement and feature four windows. They have a cornice and four giant pilasters.
No 42 retains its original marginal glazing, with the first-floor windows having moulded architraves and brackets below the sills. The ground floor windows have cornices and brackets, along with cast iron flower guards featuring an anthemion motif and brackets below the sills. In contrast, No 40 has 20th-century casements in its original openings. Both houses have Ionic porticoes on the sides with stone steps leading to the street, which are flanked by iron balustrades. The basement is rusticated with a cambered-headed window, and No 40 includes a 20th-century flat-roofed dormer. These houses are identical in type to Nos 44 and 46.
Local climate
40 and 42, Guildford Road 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
- Sale history — 11 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 10 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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