Sculptural relief of Boys Playing Football is a Grade II listed building in the Lambeth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 January 2016. Sculptural relief. 2 related planning applications.
Sculptural relief of Boys Playing Football
- WRENN ID
- waiting-pedestal-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lambeth
- Constituency
- Vauxhall and Camberwell Green MP: Florence Eshalomi (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 January 2016
- Type
- Sculptural relief
- Address
- Sculptural relief of Boys Playing Football, Wareham House, South Lambeth Estate, Fentiman Road, Vauxhall, London, SW8 1LF
- OS grid reference
- TQ 307 774
- Coordinates
- 51.48051, -0.11895
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a sculptural relief, titled ‘Boys Playing Football’, created in 1951-52 by Peter Laszlo Peri. It is made of coloured concrete, laid over an expanded metal mesh, and measures 1.85 metres in height and 2.28 metres in width. The relief is mounted on the stair tower of Wareham House.
The sculpture depicts a naturalistic group of boys engaged in a football game, although a ball is not visible. The figures are modelled using yellow and white concrete. The right-hand figure of the two foreground figures and the outer of the five background figures are in yellow concrete, while the left-hand foreground figure and the inner background figures are in white. The relief arises from a curved brick soldier course. Originally, dark-coloured pointing was used to highlight the relief against the brickwork, but this has been replaced with standard mortar.
Local climate
Sculptural relief of Boys Playing Football 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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- Sale history — 9 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
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