Hanover House is a Grade II listed building in the Southwark local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1986. House. 4 related planning applications.
Hanover House
- WRENN ID
- stark-alcove-storm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Southwark
- Constituency
- Peckham MP: Miatta Fahnbulleh (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 January 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Hanover House, 49, Cobourg Road, SE5 0HU
- OS grid reference
- TQ 336 780
- Coordinates
- 51.48584, -0.07617
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hanover House is a house dating from circa 1824. It is constructed of brick with a stucco cornice and blocking course. The building is three storeys high with a basement, and comprises two bays. A square-headed entrance is located within a recessed porch on the right-hand side. The windows are sash windows with glazing bars. Ground floor windows are round-headed, set within round-arched recesses with aprons. Upper floor windows have flat, gauged-brick arches. Basement windows have segmental heads. The interior has not been inspected. Hanover House forms a group with numbers 47-63 (odd) on Cobourg Road.
Local climate
Hanover House 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 — 3 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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