Citizens of Battersea War Memorial Shelter is a Grade II listed building in the Wandsworth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 2015. Memorial shelter.
Citizens of Battersea War Memorial Shelter
- WRENN ID
- riven-chalk-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wandsworth
- Constituency
- Battersea MP: Marsha De Cordova (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 March 2015
- Type
- Memorial shelter
- OS grid reference
- TQ 271 761
- Coordinates
- 51.4704, -0.17029
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Citizens of Battersea War Memorial Shelter is a Second World War memorial dedicated to all war casualties from Battersea, designed as a sheltered seating area. It is constructed from red brick with limestone dressings and features a clay tile roof.
The structure has a crescent shape, with its convex outer face facing north and a hipped roof. There is a small central store room accessible through a door on the north side. At each end, the shelter is extended by a timber pergola supported by brick columns.
The exterior is open-fronted to the south, where the roof and stone architrave are held up by a brick colonnade. A copper-clad lantern with a weather vane crowns the roof. The north wall includes small unglazed openings adorned with black decorative metal grilles.
Inside, a replacement granite plaque is centrally placed, inscribed with the words: "TO THE MEMORY / OF THE / MEN, WOMEN / AND / CHILDREN / OF / BATTERSEA / WHO LOST THEIR LIVES / IN THE / WORLD WAR / 1939-1945." Timber bench seating is built against the back wall on either side of the plaque.
Local climate
Citizens of Battersea War Memorial Shelter sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% 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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