Kit Cat House and attached railings is a Grade II listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1974. House.
Kit Cat House and attached railings
- WRENN ID
- third-landing-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Camden
- Constituency
- Hampstead and Highgate MP: Tulip Siddiq (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- Kit Cat House and attached railings, Holly Bush Steps
- OS grid reference
- TQ 263 858
- Coordinates
- 51.55766, -0.17867
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kit Cat House is an end of terrace house, which also forms part of No. 89 Heath Street, built around 1800. It is constructed of yellow stock brick, with the ground floor painted and the left-hand angle chamfered. The building stands three storeys high and features three windows. The central entrance has a doorcase with panelled pilasters and brackets that support a dentil cornice and fluted frieze, which is broken forward over the brackets. The square-headed entrance includes a panelled door with an overlight inscribed "Kit Cat House/AD 1745". The ground floor has sash windows, with a 20th-century fascia above, but to the left, there are remains of an old dentil cornice. The upper floors have gauged brick flat arches above recessed sashes, and the second floor on the left is blind. The building has a parapet.
Attached to the house are cast-iron railings with urn finials. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Kit Cat House 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 98% 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 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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