1, St Matthew's Road SW2 is a Grade II listed building in the Lambeth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 February 1979. Villa. 2 related planning applications.

1, St Matthew's Road SW2

WRENN ID
western-gallery-kestrel
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
Villa
Address
1, St Matthew's Road SW2, SW2 1ND
OS grid reference
TQ 310 749
Coordinates
51.45875, -0.11578
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No 1 on St Matthew's Road is an early to mid 19th-century villa that stands two storeys high with a basement and features three windows. The exterior is finished in stucco with incised lines and has a cill band on the first floor. The roof is a rebuilt hipped slate design with bracketed eaves soffit. Access to the villa is via five stone steps leading to a door that has six ornamental panels, flanked by engaged fluted columns, topped with a cornice head and a wide patterned fanlight, all set within a moulded architrave and blocking course. On the north side, there is a one-storey bow that includes an entablature and a balustrade. The villa has sash windows with glazing bars and moulded architraves on the ground floor.

Local climate

1, St Matthew's Road SW2 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 2000
  • 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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