52 Borough High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Southwark local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 October 1990. Warehouse. 6 related planning applications.
52 Borough High Street
- WRENN ID
- waiting-plaster-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Southwark
- Constituency
- Bermondsey and Old Southwark MP: Neil Coyle (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 October 1990
- Type
- Warehouse
- Address
- 52 Borough High Street, SE1 1XN
- OS grid reference
- TQ 325 800
- Coordinates
- 51.50424, -0.09151
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a warehouse dating to around 1874, designed by R C Pope. It is constructed of red brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with a stuccoed side elevation. The roof is hidden behind a stone parapet. The building is two storeys high, with two windows on the ground floor. The parapet features a wide stone eaves cornice with brackets and large, stylized acroteria in the centre and on either side. A brick dogtooth cornice sits immediately below. The ground floor has a commercial shop front with four brick piers. This fronts two doorways, each with double-panelled doors and rectangular fanlights above. The left-hand shop front incorporates four mullioned and transomed fixed lights with engraved glass and stylized anthemion motifs. Another brick dogtooth band is visible at first floor level. The first floor has a series of seven round-headed blank arches, defined by impost blocks and three aprons beneath. Internally, the warehouse is divided into rooms with wooden panelling. It possesses group value as a probable part of a group of premises for hop factors located opposite the Hop Exchange of 1866. Documents dated 22 July 1874 refer to this building.
Local climate
52 Borough High 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 — 4 transactions since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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