Gable Cottages and Garden Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Southwark local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 October 1973. Cottages. 1 related planning application.
Gable Cottages and Garden Railings
- WRENN ID
- sombre-span-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Southwark
- Constituency
- Bermondsey and Old Southwark MP: Neil Coyle (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 October 1973
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- Gable Cottages and Garden Railings, 9-12, Sudrey Street, SE1 1PF
- OS grid reference
- TQ 321 797
- Coordinates
- 51.50091, -0.09782
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gable Cottages, located on Sudrey Street in Southwark, were built in 1889 by Elijah Hoole for the Reverend T. Bastow. This group of 16 cottages is designed in the Arts and Crafts Tudor style and features red brick construction with half-timbering, roughcast, and some tile hanging on the upper floors. The cottages have pitched tiled roofs of varying heights, with sprocketed eaves and tall chimneys, arranged around three sides of a square.
The irregular frontages include many gable ends and some angled designs, with each cottage standing two storeys high and consisting of one bay. The plain plank doors are topped with rectangular overlights, and the first floors are slightly jettied, predominantly half-timbered with proud, patterned roughcast filling, with one or two cottages adorned with fishscale tiles. The centre of the group features a canted bay at the first-floor level. The windows are a mix of two-, three-, and four-light sashes.
Although the interior was not inspected, the cottages are complemented by cast-iron garden railings with urn finials placed at intervals. This development reflects the pioneering ideas of Octavia Hill for working-class housing.
Local climate
Gable Cottages and Garden 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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