Nurses Home to Hostel of God is a Grade II listed building in the Lambeth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1955. Nurses home.
Nurses Home to Hostel of God
- WRENN ID
- turning-pilaster-cream
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lambeth
- Constituency
- Clapham and Brixton Hill MP: Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 July 1955
- Type
- Nurses home
- Address
- Nurses Home to Hostel of God, 30, 31 and 32, Clapham Common North Side Sw4
- OS grid reference
- TQ 288 752
- Coordinates
- 51.46193, -0.14613
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nurses Home to Hostel of God is a late 18th century stock brick building with early to mid-19th century alterations, located on the north side of Clapham Common. The structure mostly consists of three storeys and a basement, although No 30 features a two-storey right extension with three bays. The front has a parapet and the windows are adorned with gauged flat brick arches, with some featuring glazing bars. Each entrance has a four-panel door.
No 30 has three windows and a slated mansard roof with dormers, along with a Doric porch. No 31 has five windows, one of which is wider than the others, and also features a slated mansard roof with dormers. Its doorcase is decorated with engaged columns that have foliated capitals and a dentil cornice. No 32 stands out with a projecting ground floor canted bay and two doors; one door has a radial fanlight and the other has a patterned fanlight, both set under round gauged brick arches. There is a set brick left extension as well.
Local climate
Nurses Home to Hostel of God 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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