St Giles Almshouses and Walls and Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 January 1973. Almshouse. 1 related planning application.
St Giles Almshouses and Walls and Railings
- WRENN ID
- low-window-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Camden
- Constituency
- Holborn and St Pancras
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 January 1973
- Type
- Almshouse
- Address
- St Giles Almshouses and Walls and Railings, 17a, Macklin Street, WC2B 5NH
- OS grid reference
- TQ 303 813
- Coordinates
- 51.51613, -0.12251
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Giles Almshouses is a quadrangle of four almshouses founded in 1665, erected on this site in 1790, and rebuilt in 1885 by Edward Henry Burnell. The building is constructed of yellow stock brick with red brick bands, strings, and stone dressings, featuring fishscale tile roofs with gables in a Jacobean style. It consists of two ranges that form two sides of the quadrangle, with two double-fronted cottages on each side, each having three windows. The almshouses are two storeys tall and have arched doorways with dripmoulds and foliated labels, fanlights, and ledged and braced doors set in slightly projecting gabled entrance bays with oculus in the gable. The windows are transom and mullion style with 20th-century glazing. The interiors are simple. The site also includes attached boundary walls with stone coping topped by cast-iron railings. At the south end of the quadrangle, there is an inscribed York Stone tablet dated 1790, which records the former almshouses on the site, as well as a tablet dated 1885 that notes the rebuilding of the almshouses.
Local climate
St Giles Almshouses and Walls and 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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