Albion Villas is a Grade II listed building in the Bexley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 December 1982. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Albion Villas
- WRENN ID
- ancient-granite-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bexley
- Constituency
- Bexleyheath and Crayford MP: Daniel Francis (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 December 1982
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Albion Villas, 65 and 67, Woolwich Road, DA7 4HS
- OS grid reference
- TQ 492 755
- Coordinates
- 51.45885, 0.14652
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Albion Villas comprises two semi-detached cottages built between 1865 and 1866 by Joseph Tall. These represent the earliest known surviving houses constructed by Tall, a pioneer of concrete shuttering using a method he patented in 1865. The cottages are of monolithic in situ concrete, rendered, with a later hipped slate roof; the original roof was flat and featured iron reinforcements, an early example of reinforced concrete. Each cottage is two storeys and two windows wide, with a square-headed doorway in the outer bay. They have sash windows, some retaining original glazing bars. The ground floor is rusticated, the depth of the rustication corresponding to the depth of the shuttering used in the concrete’s construction. A band runs at eaves level. The cottages are among the earliest surviving concrete houses and were featured in the Civil Engineer Architect's Journal in September 1966 and Concrete in September 1976.
Local climate
Albion Villas 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 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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 — 3 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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