27, Little Russell Street is a Grade II listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 January 1999. School. 2 related planning applications.
27, Little Russell Street
- WRENN ID
- winding-rampart-sable
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Camden
- Constituency
- Holborn and St Pancras
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 January 1999
- Type
- School
- Address
- 27, Little Russell Street, WC1A 2HN
- OS grid reference
- TQ 301 815
- Coordinates
- 51.51803, -0.12514
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
27 Little Russell Street is a former parochial school of St George's, Bloomsbury Way, now converted into flats. It was built between 1879 and 1880 by architect Joseph Peacock. The building features a yellow brick front with red brick bands, quoins, and some stone dressings, along with white-painted wooden windows. It has heavy plaster cornices above the ground and first floors and is three storeys tall. The design is asymmetrical with a three-bay composition in the Queen Anne style, where the left and central bays project and unite under a tall, shaped gable that has a central pilaster statue at the second-storey level. The entrance door is located to the right of the centre. The interior has not been inspected. This building is noted for being a well-preserved example of the later secular style of Joseph Peacock, who was a local resident and the architect for the parish of St George's, Bloomsbury.
Local climate
27, Little Russell Street 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2022
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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