River Embankment from the Houses of Parliment to Lambeth Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1987. Embankment wall.
River Embankment from the Houses of Parliment to Lambeth Bridge
- WRENN ID
- stony-shingle-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 December 1987
- Type
- Embankment wall
- Address
- River Embankment from the Houses of Parliment to Lambeth Bridge, Victoria Tower Gardens Sw1, City of Westminster
- OS grid reference
- TQ 303 792
- Coordinates
- 51.49741, -0.12429
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The River Embankment from the Houses of Parliament to Lambeth Bridge is an embankment wall located in Victoria Tower Gardens, Millbank, Westminster. It was built in the mid-19th century and is designed to complement the Palace of Westminster, created by architects Barry and Pugin. The wall is made of granite and features a battered design with mooring rings and a weather-coped parapet. On the landward side, there is a plinth, die, and coping that are cranked in two stages. The mouldings around the wall curve around canted buttresses at regular intervals. The southernmost section of the embankment is separated from the rest by the western abutment of Lambeth Bridge.
Local climate
River Embankment from the Houses of Parliment to Lambeth Bridge 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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