Ruskin House is a Grade II listed building in the Croydon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1951. House.
Ruskin House
- WRENN ID
- mired-spandrel-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Croydon
- Constituency
- Croydon West MP: Sarah Jones (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- Ruskin House, 23, Coombe Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 325 648
- Coordinates
- 51.36751, -0.09662
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ruskin House, formerly known as Coombe Hill House, is an early 18th-century building located at 23 Coombe Road. It is three storeys high with a basement, constructed of brown brick. The façade features five sash windows with segmental heads, red brick dressings, and bands between the floors. There are angle pilasters with red dressings and plinths, along with cut brick Doric capitals. The building has a cut brick cornice and parapet. The central entrance is framed by a wooden doorcase with Doric columns, a cornice, and an entablature that includes a triglyph frieze. The entrance door is an eight-fielded-panelled design. There are two additions: one to the east with two storeys and two bays, and another to the west with two storeys and one bay, which includes a coach entrance on the ground floor. Inside, the house features a fine staircase and a panelled hall with an original marble mantlepiece.
Local climate
Ruskin House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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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