Thurston House is a Grade II listed building in the Lambeth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1955. House.

Thurston House

WRENN ID
quartered-basalt-barley
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
Thurston House, 52, Rectory Grove Sw4
OS grid reference
TQ 292 758
Coordinates
51.46689, -0.14096
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Thurston House is a substantial early 19th century house located on Rectory Grove. It is three storeys high with a sunk basement and features five windows, along with an additional left bay over the carriageway. The building is constructed of stock brick, with a stuccoed first floor cill band and a basement plinth. It has a low pitched hipped slate roof with mutules at the eaves. The sash windows, which have glazing bars, are topped with gauged flat brick arches.

Access to the house is via three steps leading to a recessed double door, which has a feathered head that projects forward to form an impost band of an arched recess. This recess is adorned with an inner reeded architrave around a fanlight, all set within a rusticated surround made of alternating brick and stone, featuring a female mask on the keystone. The building also displays similar rustication on the Tudor-shaped carriage arch and on a blocked elliptical carriage arch in the wall that projects to the left, which also has a keystone mask.

Local climate

Thurston House 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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