The Drapers Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the Southwark local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 March 1950. Almshouse. 5 related planning applications.
The Drapers Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- stark-belfry-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Southwark
- Constituency
- Bermondsey and Old Southwark MP: Neil Coyle (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 March 1950
- Type
- Almshouse
- Address
- The Drapers Almshouses, 1-5, Glasshill Street, SE1 0SH
- OS grid reference
- TQ 318 798
- Coordinates
- 51.50198, -0.10187
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Drapers' Almshouses are a terrace of five almshouses built in 1820. They are located on Glasshill Street in Southwark. The building is constructed from multicoloured stock brick with a coped parapet, which is higher at each end. It is two storeys high and comprises thirteen bays, with a three-bay central section and a two-bay end section projecting slightly. The almshouses have flat, bracketed canopies above the six-panel doors, some of which are glazed. Casement windows with Gothic glazing bars feature throughout the building; the end sections have sash windows with glazing bars set within round-arched recesses, topped with a stuccoed tympanum above a cornice head at the first floor level. Stucco bands are present between the floors and above the second floor. A stone tablet above the centre of the building reads: THE DRAPERS ALMSHOUSES / REBUILT A.D.1820 / WILLIAM GIBBS / WILLIAM PUGH, CHURCH WARDENS / JOSEPH KESTERTON, OF THIS PARISH. The interior was not inspected as part of the listing process.
Local climate
The Drapers Almshouses 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 — 7 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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