Surrey Dispensary is a Grade II listed building in the Southwark local planning authority area, England. Dispensary. 2 related planning applications.
Surrey Dispensary
- WRENN ID
- old-rood-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Southwark
- Constituency
- Bermondsey and Old Southwark MP: Neil Coyle (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Dispensary
- Address
- Surrey Dispensary, Falmouth Road, SE1 4JQ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 326 793
- Coordinates
- 51.49785, -0.09105
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Surrey Dispensary is a dispensary built around 1840, located on Falmouth Road in Southwark. The building is constructed of stucco, designed to resemble banded rustication, and is painted. It is a single-storey structure featuring a segmental-arched door on the left with a narrow round-arched light beside it. To the right, there are three round-arched windows, set before a rebated front wall that angles back to connect with No. 42 Trinity Street. Beyond this, there are three additional round-arched openings. Above the entrance, a parapet displays an inscription in 20th-century lettering that marks the foundation date of the Dispensary. Although the interior was not inspected, it is noted that the Surrey Dispensary was founded in 1777 and initially operated from premises in Union Street starting in 1787. An 1840 prospectus described its mission as providing visitations to lying-in women, the sick, and the injured. This establishment was one of several charities active in Victorian Southwark and is believed to be the oldest of its kind in London.
Local climate
Surrey Dispensary 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 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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