Gray's Inn Square Numbers 12, 13 and 14, Gatehouse and Attached Railings is a Grade II* listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1951. Terraced chambers with gatehouse. 1 related planning application.

Gray's Inn Square Numbers 12, 13 and 14, Gatehouse and Attached Railings

WRENN ID
scarred-landing-wagtail
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Camden
Constituency
Holborn and St Pancras
Country
England
Date first listed
24 October 1951
Type
Terraced chambers with gatehouse
Address
Gray's Inn Square Numbers 12, 13 and 14, Gatehouse and Attached Railings, WC1R 5JR
OS grid reference
TQ 310 817
Coordinates
51.51969, -0.11235
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Gray's Inn Square numbers 12, 13, and 14, along with the gatehouse and attached railings, were built between 1684 and 1688, with later restorations. The buildings are constructed of brown brick with red brick dressings and feature brick bands between the floors, topped with a tiled roof. They rise four storeys above cellars and have seven windows each, with the gatehouse having two windows and number 14 featuring two half windows. The stone doorcases have consoles and broken segmental pediments with a ball at the center. The windows have gauged red brick flat arches and dressings, with flush frames that include boxing and glazing bars. The eaves cornice is made of wood blocks and is bracketed.

Inside, the buildings retain some panelled rooms, each featuring a dog-leg stair with turned balusters and square newels.

The attached cast-iron railings with urn finials lead to the areas in front of the buildings. The gatehouse, located between numbers 13 and 14, is made of brown brick with a rusticated stone ground floor, rusticated stone quoins, and stone bands. It has a flat arch carriage entrance with a griffon carved on the keystone. The windows have stone architraves and flush frames with glazing bars, and there is an enriched modillion cornice with a pediment. The elevation facing Gray's Inn Road is similar, but the windows feature red gauged flat arches and dressings. Within the carriageway, there are windows and a doorway from a former 18th-century bookshop, complete with a frame for shutters and a panelled surround.

Local climate

Gray's Inn Square Numbers 12, 13 and 14, Gatehouse 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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