Entrance Building to Clapham Common Tube Station is a Grade II listed building in the Lambeth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 March 1981. Tube station. 2 related planning applications.
Entrance Building to Clapham Common Tube Station
- WRENN ID
- empty-granite-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lambeth
- Constituency
- Clapham and Brixton Hill MP: Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 March 1981
- Type
- Tube station
- Address
- Entrance Building to Clapham Common Tube Station, the Pavement
- OS grid reference
- TQ 294 752
- Coordinates
- 51.4618, -0.1383
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The entrance building to Clapham Common Tube Station is an underground station built in 1900 and remodelled with a new entrance in 1923-1924, designed by Charles Holden. It features a small circular domed structure with wings on the north and south sides. The building is constructed from structural faience blocks, with a plinth and top moulding. It has a glazed dome topped with a ball finial, and the UndergrounD motif on the frieze was renewed in 1997. The circular UndergrounD signs on the finials were also restored in 1997. Inside, the walls are tiled in white with green panel borders. The ticket hall is accessed via stairs featuring a central cast-iron balustrade, and the foyers and access corridors also have white tiles with green panel borders, which were renewed in the original pattern in 1997. This station is notable for being one of only two surviving underground stations that have a central island platform, with the train lines set within a single large hall.
Local climate
Entrance Building to Clapham Common Tube Station 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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- 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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