24, Old Buildings is a Grade II listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1951. Chambers. 1 related planning application.

24, Old Buildings

WRENN ID
floating-barrel-bracken
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Camden
Constituency
Holborn and St Pancras
Country
England
Date first listed
24 October 1951
Type
Chambers
Address
24, Old Buildings, London, WC2A 3UP
OS grid reference
TQ 310 813
Coordinates
51.5162, -0.11226
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 24 Old Buildings is a chamber building constructed around 1609. It was rebuilt in 1967 in a style similar to, but not an exact copy of, the adjacent buildings Nos. 21-23, featuring a matching corner turret.

Local climate

24, Old Buildings 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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