The British Red Cross Society Vallence House is a Grade II listed building in the Southwark local planning authority area, England. House.

The British Red Cross Society Vallence House

WRENN ID
riven-remnant-dust
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Southwark
Constituency
Lewisham West and East Dulwich MP: Ellie Reeves (Lab)
Country
England
Type
House
Address
The British Red Cross Society Vallence House, 162, Peckham Rye
OS grid reference
TQ 344 753
Coordinates
51.46086, -0.06664
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The British Red Cross Society and Vallence House are a pair of houses located in Peckham Rye, Southwark, built in the early 19th century. They are constructed from amber brick with stucco dressings, featuring a moulded stucco cornice and blocking course. Each house has three storeys and a basement, with three bays. Number 160 has a later three-storey, one-bay extension on the right, while number 162 has a two-storey, one-bay extension on the left.

Both houses have stucco Doric porches in slightly recessed entrance bays, with doors that have cornice heads and patterned fanlights, flanked by fluted Ionic half columns. The inner two bays feature ground- and first-floor windows set in round-arched recesses, with a stucco string at the spring. All main windows are sashes with flat, gauged-brick arches; number 160 has glazing bars. There are decorative iron grilles on the ground-floor and some first-floor windows, along with a ground-floor stucco sill band. The interior has not been inspected. Numbers 152-166, which are even-numbered, form a group with these houses.

Local climate

The British Red Cross Society Vallence 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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