1-8 Gresham Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the Lambeth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 February 1979. Almshouses. 2 related planning applications.

1-8 Gresham Almshouses

WRENN ID
silent-landing-laurel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lambeth
Constituency
Clapham and Brixton Hill MP: Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 February 1979
Type
Almshouses
Address
1-8 Gresham Almshouses, Ferndale Road Sw9
OS grid reference
TQ 307 753
Coordinates
51.46215, -0.11957
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Gresham Almshouses, built in 1882, are a one-storey range constructed of red brick with stone dressings and high-pitched tiled roofs. The building features projecting square bay windows with hipped roof projections, which alternate with paired entrances that consist of round-arched doors set back in porches. These porches have paired round-arched openings with impost blocks, moulded architraves, and keystones, topped by a brick parapet. The roof is adorned with tall ridge stacks and stone-coped dividing walls that have ball finials. Additionally, a variety of ornamental terra-cotta finials, some featuring wolves' masks, decorate the roof ridge and hip ends. The structure also has a stone-coped plinth.

Local climate

1-8 Gresham Almshouses 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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