St Albans Clergy House and Attached Railings with Lamp Holder is a Grade II listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1974. Clergy house.

St Albans Clergy House and Attached Railings with Lamp Holder

WRENN ID
turning-bracket-oak
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Camden
Constituency
Holborn and St Pancras
Country
England
Date first listed
14 May 1974
Type
Clergy house
Address
St Albans Clergy House and Attached Railings with Lamp Holder, 18, Brooke Street
OS grid reference
TQ 311 817
Coordinates
51.51965, -0.11055
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

St Alban's Clergy House, built in 1860 by William Butterfield, is a clergy house located on Brooke Street. It is constructed of brown brick with red brick and stone dressings, featuring string courses at the sill levels. The building has a slate roof with two gables and is designed in the Gothic style. It stands four storeys high with a basement and consists of four bays. The entrance bay projects and has a pointed arch entrance with a wrought-iron gate, above which is a cross and the words "Saint Alban The Martyr" forming an arch. On the first floor, there are three cusped lancet windows with blind lancets on either side. The second floor features two narrow segmental-headed windows with paired pointed dripmoulds above. The third floor, located in the gable, has two narrow segmental-headed windows with blind plate tracery and a pointed dripmould above. The windows to the right and left of the entrance bay are similar but with variations. The interior has not been inspected. The property also includes attached wrought-iron railings with a lamp-holder.

Local climate

St Albans Clergy House and Attached Railings with Lamp Holder 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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