Girdlers Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the Southwark local planning authority area, England. Almshouses. 5 related planning applications.
Girdlers Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- endless-glass-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Southwark
- Constituency
- Peckham MP: Miatta Fahnbulleh (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Almshouses
- Address
- Girdlers Almshouses, 1-5, Choumert Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 341 761
- Coordinates
- 51.46808, -0.06935
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A row of five almshouses located in Southwark, built in 1852 and designed by Woodthorpe. The buildings are constructed of grey brick with stucco dressings, and have a low-pitched slate roof hidden behind a decorative series of shaped gables, each topped with an obelisk finial. The design presents a unified appearance of two storeys and five bays, with projecting bays at each end. The end bays feature rusticated stucco quoins, and pilaster strips topped with ball finials sit between the bays. The doors have rusticated stucco lintels, and the windows are mullioned and transomed, set within squared block surrounds. A plinth and moulded string run along the first floor. Tall diagonal stacks are situated between each house. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Girdlers Almshouses 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 — 13 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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