Hostel of God is a Grade II listed building in the Lambeth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1955. House. 3 related planning applications.
Hostel of God
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-pediment-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lambeth
- Constituency
- Clapham and Brixton Hill MP: Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 July 1955
- Type
- House
- Address
- Hostel of God, 29, Clapham Common North Side Sw4
- OS grid reference
- TQ 289 753
- Coordinates
- 51.46205, -0.14589
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Hostel of God is a late 18th-century house located on the north side of Clapham Common. It has three storeys and a basement, featuring a main block with five windows and a slightly projecting, pedimented three-bay centre. To the right, there is an extra blank bay, and to the left, a wide one-bay extension that rises two tall storeys. The building is constructed of stock brick, with stucco bands at the ground level, first floor, and at the cill level of the first floor. The sash windows, which have glazing bars, are set beneath gauged brick arches; those on the ground floor are round-headed and placed in round-arched recesses, while the extension has tripartite windows, all featuring blind cases. A blue plaque from the London County Council notes that Sir Charles Barry, the architect, lived and died here. The entrance is marked by a central Doric porch with a pediment.
Local climate
Hostel of God 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 — 3 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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