Albert Terrace and Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Southwark local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 June 1989. Terrace, houses. 56 related planning applications.
Albert Terrace and Railings
- WRENN ID
- pitched-basalt-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Southwark
- Constituency
- Bermondsey and Old Southwark MP: Neil Coyle (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 June 1989
- Type
- Terrace, houses
- Address
- Albert Terrace and Railings, 4-48, Gladstone Street, SE1 6EY
- OS grid reference
- TQ 316 793
- Coordinates
- 51.49742, -0.10501
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Albert Terrace comprises a terrace of 23 houses built between 1849 and 1852, designed by Garland and Christopher. The construction is primarily yellow stock brick with stucco banded rustication to the ground floor and stucco dressings, topped with slate roofs. Some sections have dormers behind a stucco parapet featuring a cornice, which is broken in places.
The terrace features a slightly projecting central two-bay section (number 24) flanked by pedimented four-bay sections at numbers 12, 14, 38 and 40, ornamented with brackets to the cornices and pediments. The houses are two storeys high, with attics and basements, and each has two bays. Steps lead to panelled front doors with original fittings and oblong overlights, set within Classical doorcases featuring pilasters and a plain entablature with cornice. The ground-floor sash windows have margin lights and keystones that touch the cornice. First-floor sash windows with glazing bars are set within square-headed stucco architraves; those at numbers 12, 14 and 24, as well as the bays flanking numbers 38 and 40, have cornices, with numbers 38 and 40 also featuring pediments. The grand pediment to numbers 38 and 40 contains a beehive emblem in the tympanum, possibly referencing the Royal Philanthropic Society Reformatory, who owned the estate. These bays also have windows with keystones incorporated into the pediment.
Internally, the houses retain original stick-baluster staircases with wreathed handrails, panelled doors, shutters and fireplaces. Subsidiary features include wrought-iron area railings and some window boxes with anthemion panels.
Local climate
Albert Terrace and Railings 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 — 20 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 56 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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