Imperial Court is a Grade II listed building in the Lambeth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 March 1981. School. 8 related planning applications.
Imperial Court
- WRENN ID
- graven-buttress-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lambeth
- Constituency
- Vauxhall and Camberwell Green MP: Florence Eshalomi (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 March 1981
- Type
- School
- Address
- Imperial Court, 225, Kennington Lane Se11, SE11 5QN
- OS grid reference
- TQ 311 781
- Coordinates
- 51.48688, -0.11255
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Imperial Court is a large, four-story building dating from 1835-6, originally designed by H and E Rose as a school for the Licensed Victuallers' Company. It now serves as the NAAFI headquarters. The building is composed of five three-window sections, with the central and end sections projecting. It is constructed of stock brick with stone and stucco dressings in a classical style. The ground and first floors have rusticated podia in the central and end sections, forming voussoirs to round-arched openings. A tetrastyle composite portico with a pedimented gable sits centrally above a tall, triple window with its own cornice and pediment. Gauged flat brick arches frame sash windows with glazing bars, and moulded architraves feature at the ends of the building. The intermediate sections have a mezzanine floor with modern windows inserted. A wide flight of steps leads to three round-arched entrances in the centre of the building.
Local climate
Imperial Court 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.
- Sale history — 240 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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