Number 59 and Attached Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1974. Terraced house. 3 related planning applications.

Number 59 and Attached Railings

WRENN ID
forgotten-porch-twilight
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Camden
Constituency
Holborn and St Pancras
Country
England
Date first listed
14 May 1974
Type
Terraced house
Address
Number 59 and Attached Railings, Birkenhead Street, WC1H 8BB
OS grid reference
TQ 303 829
Coordinates
51.53013, -0.12248
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Number 59 is a terraced house built circa 1827-32 by W Forrester Bray. It has a painted brick and stucco ground floor and a brick first-floor sill band. The house is three storeys high with a basement and has two windows. The ground-floor openings have architraves and round arches. The doorway features fluted Doric quarter columns, a cornice head, a 20th-century panelled door, and a patterned fanlight. A casement window is on the ground floor. The upper storeys have recessed sashes with gauged brick flat arches, the first-floor windows being within shallow arched recesses. A parapet tops the building. The interior was not inspected. Attached to the property are cast-iron railings with urn finials to the areas.

Local climate

Number 59 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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  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2012
  • Related listed building consents — 3 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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