The Priory is a Grade II listed building in the Wandsworth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 December 1970. Villa. 3 related planning applications.
The Priory
- WRENN ID
- mired-truss-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wandsworth
- Constituency
- Tooting MP: Dr Rosena Allin-Khan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 December 1970
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- The Priory, 225, Bedford Hill Sw12, SW12 9HU
- OS grid reference
- TQ 291 724
- Coordinates
- 51.4367, -0.14397
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Priory is a double-fronted villa dating from circa 1810-20, built in the Gothic style. It is three storeys high, with a two-storey entrance front and a north-side extension. The villa has three windows, with one window in the extension. The exterior is stuccoed brick, with turretted corners, some of which serve as chimneys. The parapets are mostly battlemented with central pierced decoration. The windows are square-headed and architraved, with two lights each, featuring hood moulds, and some lights with pointed arches. The south-facing return has splayed bay windows to the ground and first floors. A battlemented, projecting entrance portico is supported by corner buttresses, and the doorway has a pointed, moulded arch. The house gained notoriety when Charles Bravo died under mysterious circumstances in 1876, leading to a famous 19th-century murder trial.
Local climate
The Priory sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 29 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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