Former Lambeth Waterworks District Offices and Stores Building is a Grade II listed building in the Kingston upon Thames local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 October 2003. Office, store.
Former Lambeth Waterworks District Offices and Stores Building
- WRENN ID
- gentle-hall-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kingston upon Thames
- Constituency
- Kingston and Surbiton MP: Ed Davey (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 October 2003
- Type
- Office, store
- Address
- Former Lambeth Waterworks District Offices and Stores Building, Seething Wells Halls of Residence, Kingston University, Portsmouth Road, Surbiton, KT6 5PJ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 172 673
- Coordinates
- 51.39277, -0.3164
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Former Lambeth Waterworks District Offices and Stores Building, constructed between 1850 and 1852 by James Simpson for the Lambeth Waterworks, is now used as stores. This Gothic-style building is made of stock brick in Flemish bond with sandstone dressings and features a slate roof with panelled stock brick chimneystacks. It is asymmetrical and consists of one storey, resembling an entrance lodge with four gables topped with sandstone fleur de lys shaped finials and irregularly placed windows.
On the south-west side, there is a small gable on the left with an entrance framed by a sandstone architrave, followed by a larger projecting gable that includes a dogtooth cornice and a clock face. This side also has two additional entrances and two blocked mullioned windows. Two recessed gables contain a wide entrance and a mullioned window. The south-east side features a tripartite mullioned and transomed window, while the north-east side has another tripartite mullioned and transomed window, a narrow mullioned window, an entrance, and a lean-to.
Inside, the building has a plaster ceiling rose and original York stone paving, along with a set of steep steps leading to the clock. In 1995, the building became part of a hall of residence complex for Kingston University.
Local climate
Former Lambeth Waterworks District Offices and Stores Building 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 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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