70, St Marychurch Street is a Grade II listed building in the Southwark local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 December 1949. House. 4 related planning applications.

70, St Marychurch Street

WRENN ID
nether-shingle-clover
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Southwark
Constituency
Bermondsey and Old Southwark MP: Neil Coyle (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 December 1949
Type
House
Address
70, St Marychurch Street, SE16 4HZ
OS grid reference
TQ 351 797
Coordinates
51.50097, -0.05405
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 70 St Marychurch Street is a house that was later used as a school and is now an office. It was built around 1700 and features red brick with stone dressings, topped by a parapet with stone coping. The building has three storeys and three bays. The front has stone quoins and a plinth, and to the right is a six-panel door with a decorative fanlight, set within a timber doorcase that has panelled reveals and sunk panelled pilaster jambs supporting an entablature with a cornice. The projecting door-hood has been removed.

The centre window on the first floor has a stone plaque beneath it, flanked by scroll corbels that support figures of a boy and girl dressed in 17th-century clothing. The ground-floor windows feature brick aprons and have flat, gauged-brick arches, while the first-floor windows also have flat arches, and the second-floor windows have cambered, gauged-brick arches with keystones. All windows are sash windows with glazing bars in flush frames. There is a blank brown brick return to the right, and the rear elevation has been rebuilt.

Inside, the building retains its original panelling and staircase, which features barleysugar balusters and carved brackets. The plaque on the building indicates that the free school, founded in 1613 and instituted in 1742, moved to this location in 1797.

Local climate

70, St Marychurch 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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