Four Public Benches on Embankment Footpath Immediately North of Alembic House is a Grade II listed building in the Lambeth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 March 1981. Public amenity.
Four Public Benches on Embankment Footpath Immediately North of Alembic House
- WRENN ID
- hushed-cobalt-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lambeth
- Constituency
- Vauxhall and Camberwell Green MP: Florence Eshalomi (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 March 1981
- Type
- Public amenity
- Address
- Four Public Benches on Embankment Footpath Immediately North of Alembic House, Albert Embankment Se1
- OS grid reference
- TQ 303 784
- Coordinates
- 51.4896, -0.12337
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Four public benches located on the embankment footpath immediately north of Alembic House date from the 19th century. They are now set in blocks of modern concrete with exposed aggregate. The benches feature cast iron centre and end supports, which have ornamental open-work panels and arms designed in the shape of swans. These supports hold long wooden slats for seating.
Local climate
Four Public Benches on Embankment Footpath Immediately North of Alembic House 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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