Southwood Court is a Grade II listed building in the Barnet local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1965. Almshouse. 4 related planning applications.
Southwood Court
- WRENN ID
- sombre-chimney-jackdaw
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Barnet
- Constituency
- Finchley and Golders Green MP: Sarah Sackman (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1965
- Type
- Almshouse
- Address
- Southwood Court, 1-24, Bigwood Road Nw11, NW11 6SR
- OS grid reference
- TQ 257 885
- Coordinates
- 51.58213, -0.18714
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Southwood Court, located on Bigwood Road, is a building designed by architects C G Butler and J C S Souter. It features an almshouse type layout and was constructed in the 20th century using purple brown brick with red brick dressings. The building has hipped tiled roofs and is two storeys high. It includes sash windows with transoms. Each block has a central feature that projects forward and contains pedimented two-light dormers, supported by side lights. The doorways are adorned with architraves and bracketed hoods. Southwood Court is noted for its layout, group value, and design.
Local climate
Southwood Court 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 98% 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 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- Related listed building consents — 4 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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