Dovedale Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Wandsworth local planning authority area, England. Almshouse. 2 related planning applications.

Dovedale Cottages

WRENN ID
salt-floor-martin
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wandsworth
Constituency
Battersea MP: Marsha De Cordova (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Almshouse
Address
Dovedale Cottages, 12 and 12a, Battersea Park Road, SW11 4LN
OS grid reference
TQ 276 764
Coordinates
51.47272, -0.16353
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Dovedale Cottages is an almshouse, now divided into flats, built in 1841 for Mrs. Lightfoot and her daughter Mary. It is identical in materials and design to No. 1, but the layout is reversed, with the entrance porch located on the east side and the chimney stack on the west. The east side features only ground-floor windows, while there is an eyebrow window near the south corner on the west side. This building is part of a tripartite composition of Dovedale Cottages, which was intended for "persons in reduced circumstances professing godliness."

Local climate

Dovedale Cottages 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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