The Bishops House is a Grade II listed building in the Southwark local planning authority area, England. Bishop's house. 8 related planning applications.
The Bishops House
- WRENN ID
- hushed-vestry-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Southwark
- Constituency
- Vauxhall and Camberwell Green MP: Florence Eshalomi (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Bishop's house
- Address
- The Bishops House, Kennington Park Place, SE11 4AS
- OS grid reference
- TQ 315 779
- Coordinates
- 51.48546, -0.10683
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bishop's House is a Bishop's residence, now functioning as a day nursery, built in 1895 by Norman Shaw for the Bishop of Rochester. It is constructed of red brick with stone dressings in the Queen Anne style, featuring a high-pitched, swept tiled roof with deep, coved eaves and segment-headed dormers. The building is two storeys high, with an attic and basement, and has six bays on the street front. The left return has eight bays, with the entrance located in a three-bay center section that includes a stone architrave, pulvinated frieze, cornice, and segmental pediment. The main windows are long, featuring timber mullions and transoms, flat gauged-brick arches, and keystones. The ground floor windows have blind boxes, while the basement windows are segmental-headed. There is a sill band on the first floor. At the rear, the former chapel has large lunette windows with leaded lights and keystones. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Bishops 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 — 2 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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