Beeston's Gift Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the Southwark local planning authority area, England. Almshouse. 3 related planning applications.
Beeston's Gift Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- under-spandrel-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Southwark
- Constituency
- Peckham MP: Miatta Fahnbulleh (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Almshouse
- Address
- Beeston's Gift Almshouses, Consort Road, SE15 3SD
- OS grid reference
- TQ 347 758
- Coordinates
- 51.46535, -0.06151
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Beeston's Gift Almshouses is a terrace of seven almshouses built in 1834 for the Girdlers' Company. The building is constructed of stucco and features a low-pitched slate roof behind a cornice and parapet, with a raised central section that is inscribed with "Beeston's Gift Alms Houses." It has tall, grouped, hexagonal chimneys. The composition is later enclosed on either side by separate one-storey ranges added in the mid-20th century.
The exterior is two storeys high and consists of twelve bays, with the outer bays gabled and slightly set forward. Tudor-style doors are located beneath oblong panels with ornamental shields, alternating with ground-floor windows in the central ten-bay section. All ground-floor openings and upper windows in the gable ends have square hood moulds. The windows are Tudor-style, with mullioned and transomed four-light designs, and the ground-floor windows in the gable ends are six-light. There is a first-floor sill string in the central section. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Beeston's Gift 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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