Numbers 54-58 and Attached Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1974. A Victorian House, hotel. 15 related planning applications.

Numbers 54-58 and Attached Railings

WRENN ID
hidden-basalt-poplar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Camden
Constituency
Holborn and St Pancras
Country
England
Date first listed
14 May 1974
Type
House, hotel
Period
Victorian
Address
Numbers 54-58 and Attached Railings, Birkenhead Street, WC1H 8BB
OS grid reference
TQ 303 828
Coordinates
51.52992, -0.12215
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a terrace of five houses, known as Nos 54-58, built between 1834 and 1849 by W Forrester Bray. Currently, Nos 54 and 55 operate as hotels. The houses are constructed of yellow stock brick, with some later patching, while Nos 54 and 55 feature red brick parapets and No. 56 is painted. The ground floors of Nos 54-56 are finished in stucco, and there are plain stucco sill bands on the first floor. The buildings have slated mansard roofs with dormers.

The ground floor openings are round-arched. No. 54 has a single-storey stucco portico extension on its return, featuring a round-arched doorway flanked by fluted Doric three-quarter columns that support a cornice-head, along with a fanlight and a panelled door. Nos 55-57 have architraved doorways with pilaster-jambs and cornice-heads, each with fanlights, including a patterned fanlight for No. 57, and panelled doors, with No. 56 having a 20th-century door. No. 58's doorway is adorned with fluted Doric quarter columns and a cornice, along with a patterned fanlight and a panelled door. The windows feature gauged-brick flat arches and recessed sashes, with the first floor windows set in shallow arched recesses. There are cast-iron balconies on the first floor windows and parapets on the roofs.

The terrace is complemented by attached cast-iron railings with bud and other finials surrounding the areas. The interiors have not been inspected.

Local climate

Numbers 54-58 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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