20, DENMARK STREET (See details for further address information) is a Grade II listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1974. A C19 Terraced house, warehouse. 9 related planning applications.
20, DENMARK STREET (See details for further address information)
- WRENN ID
- tilted-flagstone-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Camden
- Constituency
- Holborn and St Pancras
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1974
- Type
- Terraced house, warehouse
- Address
- 20, DENMARK STREET (See details for further address information), WC2H 8LS
- OS grid reference
- TQ 298 812
- Coordinates
- 51.51532, -0.12962
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 20 Denmark Street is a terraced house with a later shop and a former warehouse, known as No. 16 Denmark Place, attached at ground floor level to the rear. It is currently used as a shop and offices. The building dates from around 1686 to 1689 and was part of an estate development by Samuel Fortrey and Jacques Wiseman, with the early 19th-century warehouse added later.
The house is constructed of multi-coloured stock brick, with the fourth storey made of yellow stock brick. It features stucco keystones and a string course at the first floor. The building has four storeys, with the fourth storey being a later addition, and two windows. The windows have gauged red brick flat arches and dressings, with recessed sashes that have flush frames and exposed boxing. The ground floor has a 20th-century shopfront that extends into the ground floor of No. 16 Denmark Place.
The warehouse is made of yellow stock brick, painted on the ground and first floors, with brown brick at the rear. It has three storeys and a basement. The ground floor features a 20th-century shopfront, while the first floor has 20th-century windows. The second floor retains original central loading doors flanked by sashes. A parapet caps the building. At the rear, there are six unhorned, gated sashes on both the first and second floors, along with a chimney stack that runs the full height of the building on the right side.
Inside, there are pine beams, a late 20th-century main stair, and an original subsidiary stair. The third floor includes a glazed roof lantern.
Local climate
20, DENMARK STREET (See details for further address information) 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 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- Related listed building consents — 9 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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