Sculptural relief of Mother and Children Playing is a Grade II listed building in the Lambeth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 January 2016. Sculptural relief.

Sculptural relief of Mother and Children Playing

WRENN ID
shadowed-stronghold-poplar
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 Mother and Children Playing, Horton House, South Lambeth Estate, Vauxhall, London, SW8 1PT
OS grid reference
TQ 306 774
Coordinates
51.48085, -0.11986
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The sculptural relief titled ‘Mother and Children Playing’ was created by Peter Laszlo Peri between 1951 and 1952. It is mounted on the stair tower of Horton House, which is not listed. The relief measures 1.89 meters tall and 2.56 meters wide and is made of red ochre, tan, and yellow coloured concrete laid over expanded metal mesh. It features a naturalistic depiction of a mother and three children dancing in a ring, with the mother and the boy on the right crafted in red ochre concrete, the boy in the center in yellow, and the girl on the left in tan. The figures emerge from a curved projecting brick soldier course. Originally, the composition was framed by dark coloured pointing to the brick to enhance its visibility, but this has since been replaced with standard mortar.

Local climate

Sculptural relief of Mother and Children Playing 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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