5-8, Vanbrugh Terrace SE3 is a Grade II listed building in the Greenwich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 June 1973. Detached houses. 4 related planning applications.
5-8, Vanbrugh Terrace SE3
- WRENN ID
- shifting-stronghold-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Greenwich
- Constituency
- Greenwich and Woolwich MP: Matthew Pennycook (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 June 1973
- Type
- Detached houses
- Address
- 5-8, Vanbrugh Terrace SE3, SE3 7AP
- OS grid reference
- TQ 398 770
- Coordinates
- 51.47492, 0.01265
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
These are a group of detached houses, dating to around 1840, located at 5-8 Vanbrugh Terrace. Each house is three storeys high with a basement, and has three windows. They have fairly low-pitched, hipped slate roofs with deep eaves soffits. The construction is multicoloured brick with stuccoed facades.
Nos 5 and 6 have a deeply rusticated ground floor, where the rustication forms window voussoirs that extend up to the first floor cill string. There's also a second floor cill string present. The basement level is plain. Moulded architraves frame the first and second floor windows; those on the ground floor feature a heavy pulvinated frieze and dentil cornice. Bracketed cills are present on the ground floor windows. All windows are sash windows with margin lights. A single-storey link connects the houses, with paired Doric prostyle porches featuring a triglyph and bucranium frieze, and a dentil cornice. Six steps lead to four-panel doors with glazed upper panels and rectangular fanlights.
Nos 7 and 8 have a shallow, banded rustication on the ground floor, with a blocking course at first floor level. There are first and second floor cill bands. Moulded architraves frame the first and second floor windows; those on the first floor incorporate pilasters, a cornice, and a pediment. Wood-lined reveals and blind cases feature on the ground floor windows of No 8, along with bracketed cills. A bracketed cill is also present on the first floor windows of No 8. All windows are sash windows with margin lights. No 7 has a discreet entrance on the side return. No 8 has a double door on the left, with glazed upper panels, a cornice head, and a rectangular fanlight with margin lights, set within a wood architrave and a simple entablature surround. A flight of seven steps leads to the door, with a stuccoed side wall.
Nos 1 to 8 (consec) form a group.
Local climate
5-8, Vanbrugh Terrace SE3 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 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 22 transactions since 1998
- 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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