48 to 54 (Wardonia Hotel) and 56 to 58, Argyle Street, and Attached Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1974. Terraced houses/hotel. 5 related planning applications.
48 to 54 (Wardonia Hotel) and 56 to 58, Argyle Street, and Attached Railings
- WRENN ID
- open-loggia-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Camden
- Constituency
- Holborn and St Pancras
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1974
- Type
- Terraced houses/hotel
- Address
- 48 to 54 (Wardonia Hotel) and 56 to 58, Argyle Street, and Attached Railings, London, WC1H 8ER
- OS grid reference
- TQ 303 827
- Coordinates
- 51.52846, -0.12283
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A terrace of six houses, numbers 48 to 54, now the Wardonia Hotel, and numbers 56 and 58, built around 1839 to 1849. The buildings are constructed of yellow stock brick, with channelled cement on the ground floors of numbers 48 to 52, and a painted ground floor at number 54. Numbers 48 to 54 have slated mansard roofs with dormers and attic floors, in addition to three main storeys. Each house has two windows. The ground floor features round-arched openings. Doorways to numbers 48 to 52 have cement surrounds; numbers 54 to 58 have stucco surrounds, with pilaster jambs, cornice heads, fanlights (patterned on numbers 56 and 58), and panelled doors. Ground floor windows have margin lights, with numbers 56 and 58 featuring intersecting tracery. Upper floor windows have gauged brick flat arches over recessed sash windows. The buildings have parapets. The interiors have not been inspected. Attached cast-iron railings with urn finials mark the areas. The group value of the building lies in its contribution to the historic streetscape.
Local climate
48 to 54 (Wardonia Hotel) and 56 to 58, Argyle Street, 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 — 6 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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