Numbers 4 to 7 and Attached Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 May 1974. Terrace of houses. 18 related planning applications.
Numbers 4 to 7 and Attached Railings
- WRENN ID
- riven-pilaster-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Camden
- Constituency
- Holborn and St Pancras
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 May 1974
- Type
- Terrace of houses
- Address
- Numbers 4 to 7 and Attached Railings, Handel Street, WC1N 1PB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 303 823
- Coordinates
- 51.52545, -0.12274
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a terrace of four houses, numbers 4 to 7, located on the south side of Handel Street in Camden. The houses were likely built around 1800. Numbers 6 and 7 had their second and third floors redone in the mid-20th century to match the original appearance. Numbers 4 and 5 are built of brown brick, showing some signs of repointing, with the third floor of number 5 having been refaced. Numbers 6 and 7 are of darkened yellow stock brick. The houses are three windows wide, with stucco bands marking the sill levels of the first and third floors. Each house has a basement. The doorways are round-arched, with reeded pilaster supports leading up to corniced heads, above which are fanlights; numbers 5 to 7 have fanlights with a radial pattern, and all have panelled doors. The recessed sash windows have two panes and are set within gauged red brick arches. The first floor of each house has cast-iron balconies. Parapets top the buildings. The interiors were not inspected during the listing process. Attached cast-iron railings with urn finials are present around the areas.
Local climate
Numbers 4 to 7 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 — 19 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 18 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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