16-21, Grafton Square SW4 is a Grade II listed building in the Lambeth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 May 1979. Terrace. 2 related planning applications.
16-21, Grafton Square SW4
- WRENN ID
- night-tallow-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lambeth
- Constituency
- Clapham and Brixton Hill MP: Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 May 1979
- Type
- Terrace
- Address
- 16-21, Grafton Square SW4, SW4 0DA
- OS grid reference
- TQ 294 756
- Coordinates
- 51.46469, -0.13849
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
16 to 21 Grafton Square is a mid-19th century terrace of houses, each featuring three storeys and a basement, with two windows. Number 16 has one window set back and a two-storey entrance bay, similar to Number 21. The buildings are finished in stucco, with the ground floor and basement displaying banded rustication beneath a cornice that is continuous with the door and window cornices. This cornice supports pilasters that hold up the main frieze, cornice, and a panelled parapet with balustraded sections. The terrace features alternating single and tripartite sash windows with horizontal bars, while the second floor windows are framed in moulded architraves. The ground and first floor windows have ornamental surrounds depicting sunflower stems in high relief, with the flowers represented as angle paterae. There are console bracketed cornices above the windows, and the ground floor windows are adorned with pediments and cast iron guards. Access to the houses is via six steps, which have stuccoed balustrades, leading to four-panel doors set back behind a doorway that features a similar architrave and console bracketed cornice.
Local climate
16-21, Grafton Square SW4 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 — 1 transaction since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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