Underground Room to Rear of Number 5 is a Grade II listed building in the Sutton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 March 1974. Underground chamber.
Underground Room to Rear of Number 5
- WRENN ID
- tilted-solder-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sutton
- Constituency
- Sutton and Cheam MP: Luke Taylor (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 March 1974
- Type
- Underground chamber
- Address
- Underground Room to Rear of Number 5, Malden Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 241 637
- Coordinates
- 51.35961, -0.2176
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The underground room located at the rear of Number 5 on Malden Road in Cheam is a Grade II listed structure, likely dating from the late 17th century. It is the only surviving example of several similar chambers that were once found in Cheam. Accessed by a steep flight of steps, the rectangular space features walls made of limestone masonry and a brick barrel vaulted roof constructed in Flemish bond. There are round-headed arches in the center of each long wall and in the rear wall to the west. A further flight of steps leads down to a greater depth from the rear wall. Iron rings are fixed to the walls, suggesting the room may have been used as a food store for Cheam School when it occupied the Whitehall site.
Local climate
Underground Room to Rear of Number 5 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 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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