White Hall Hotel (Numbers 9-11) and Attached Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 June 1969. House. 18 related planning applications.
White Hall Hotel (Numbers 9-11) and Attached Railings
- WRENN ID
- north-courtyard-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Camden
- Constituency
- Holborn and St Pancras
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 June 1969
- Type
- House
- Address
- White Hall Hotel (Numbers 9-11) and Attached Railings, 9-13, Bloomsbury Square
- OS grid reference
- TQ 302 816
- Coordinates
- 51.51864, -0.12347
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The White Hall Hotel (numbers 9-11) comprises five terraced houses dating to approximately 1662-1665 and built by T Coxe. The buildings underwent numerous alterations in the 18th and 19th centuries. Numbers 10, 11, and 13 were refronted around 1770-1772, and a third floor was added in 1841. The facades were stuccoed around 1862 in an Italianate style. Numbers 9-11 form a symmetrical group with a recessed central bay topped by a pediment. The building has a slated mansard roof with dormers. It stands four storeys high, with number 10 having an additional attic story and a basement. Each house has three windows.
The ground floor is rusticated, and pilasters rise from the first floor, defining each house and supporting the entablature, which features a dentil cornice on the outer bays. A square-headed doorcase features pilasters, a round-headed arch with a keystone and voussoirs, paterae, and cornice, as well as a fanlight and two-leaf panelled doors. Ground floor windows include hexagonal and small square leaded lights. The architraved two-pane sash windows on the first floor have cornices, while the second floor also has cornices that break upwards over the keystones; the first floor windows have wrought-iron balconies. A balustraded parapet tops the outer bays, while the central bay features a pediment over the attic storey with an enriched tympanum containing a cartouche bearing the words "White Hall".
The interior was reconstructed for use as a hotel in 1909-11 and has not been inspected. Numbers 12 and 13 continue the terrace to the north, maintaining a similar style but without mansard roofs or dormers. They also feature square-headed recessed doorways with fanlights and panelled doors. Number 12 contains a panelled ground floor front room, which was formerly the office of the historian Sir Nikolaus Pevsner.
Attached to the areas are late 19th-century cast-iron railings. Number 10 was the residence of Dr Robert Willan, a dermatologist, and a plaque commemorating him is present.
Local climate
White Hall Hotel (Numbers 9-11) and Attached Railings 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 9 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 18 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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