Watch House in Recreation Ground, Adjoining Number 70 is a Grade II listed building in the Southwark local planning authority area, England. Watch house.
Watch House in Recreation Ground, Adjoining Number 70
- WRENN ID
- eastward-stair-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Southwark
- Constituency
- Bermondsey and Old Southwark MP: Neil Coyle (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Watch house
- Address
- Watch House in Recreation Ground, Adjoining Number 70, SE16 4HZ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 351 798
- Coordinates
- 51.501, -0.05413
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The watch house, dated 1821, is located in the Recreation Ground next to number 70 on St Marychurch Street. It is built from yellow stock brick and features a stone-coped parapet and plinth, with a lower lean-to slate roof at the back. The building is single-storey and has three bays facing the street. The wider central entrance is flanked by two small window openings, all featuring stone sills and gauged brick segmental arches. There are square sunk panels beside a plaque above the entrance, which includes an inscription about the burial ground on the right side. The interior has not been inspected. This watch house forms a pair with a matching engine house, and both buildings are positioned at the street front of the former burial ground, which is now a park.
Local climate
Watch House in Recreation Ground, Adjoining Number 70 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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