31-37, Union Street is a Grade II listed building in the Southwark local planning authority area, England. House. 5 related planning applications.
31-37, Union Street
- WRENN ID
- sombre-attic-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Southwark
- Constituency
- Bermondsey and Old Southwark MP: Neil Coyle (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- 31-37, Union Street, SE1 1SD
- OS grid reference
- TQ 324 800
- Coordinates
- 51.50351, -0.09328
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A terrace of four early 19th century houses, now used as three shops and one house, is situated on Union Street. The buildings are three storeys high, with attics to numbers 31 and 35, and have three bays each. The facade is primarily multi-coloured stock brick with parapets; number 31 is stuccoed. Numbers 31 and 35 have slate mansard roofs with dormers concealed behind a brick parapet. The upper portion of number 37 appears to have been rebuilt.
Number 31’s ground floor, formerly a shop front and now housing garage entrances and a house entrance, features four fluted Doric columns supporting a frieze and cornice above a wider central opening and flanking side openings. The first and second floors have sash windows set within tall round-arched recesses with impost bands. Number 33’s ground floor was boarded up at the time of survey. Number 35 has an altered shop front with pilasters, a panelled dado, a door to the right, and a recent fascia board above. Its first floor has four-pane sash windows, and its second floor has six-pane sash windows, all with glazing bars and gauged, flat brick arches. Number 37’s ground floor has an altered shop front with a door to the left and a further private door to the left, recessed with a cornice head. Sash windows with glazing bars are set within gauged, flat brick arches (with no central window on the second floor). A stuccoed dentil cornice runs along the top of the facade. Some sash windows are missing.
The interior was not inspected.
Local climate
31-37, Union Street 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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