Woolwich House is a Grade II listed building in the Southampton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 March 1981. Commercial building. 2 related planning applications.
Woolwich House
- WRENN ID
- stranded-kitchen-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Southampton
- Constituency
- Southampton Itchen MP: Darren Paffey (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 March 1981
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- Woolwich House, 36 and 37, High Street, City of Southampton, SO14 2HN
- OS grid reference
- SU 420 113
- Coordinates
- 50.8999, -1.4035
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Woolwich House is a corner building constructed around 1850 to 1860, designed for commercial use and featuring Italianate architectural details. It stands three storeys high, built of yellow brick with stone dressings. The building has five bays facing High Street and three bays on Bernard Street. At the top, there is a parapet with a balustrade and ornate Italianate chimney stacks that conceal the roof. The structure includes a modillion cornice and bands of alternating blank panels and paterae. The windows are sash style, set in moulded architraves with cornices and console brackets on the first floor. Moulded bands separate the floors. The ground floor features a contemporary shop front with granite columns and a segmental stone pediment adorned with swag moulding. Additionally, there are Corinthian columns and segmental headed casements at the ground level, along with a stone plinth.
Local climate
Woolwich House receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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