24, Old Gloucester Street is a Grade II listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 January 1999. School, residential. 8 related planning applications.
24, Old Gloucester Street
- WRENN ID
- scattered-roof-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Camden
- Constituency
- Holborn and St Pancras
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 January 1999
- Type
- School, residential
- Address
- 24, Old Gloucester Street, WC1N 3AL
- OS grid reference
- TQ 304 818
- Coordinates
- 51.52069, -0.1217
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
24 Old Gloucester Street is a former girls' infants school, now a private residence, built between 1863 and 1864 by architect SS Teulon. The building is constructed of stock brick with yellow brick and stone dressings, featuring a slate roof and designed in an early Gothic style. It stands three storeys tall, facing Old Gloucester Street and extending to Gage Street, with an irregular layout that follows the street line.
The ground storey includes a door at the north end and lancet windows with prominent continuous stone mullions. The first-floor windows are adorned with pointed brick relieving arches, while the top storey features tall arched windows, some exhibiting geometrical tracery. The gables and external chimney breasts have been slightly simplified over time. The entrance, located at the north end, has a fanlight set under a pointed arch.
Although the interior has been altered, the essential teaching spaces remain intact. There is an angle with a biblical quotation and the date 1863. This building is a characteristic example of Teulon's work and forms a significant group with the nearby No. 25 boys' school and St George the Martyr church in Queen Square, which was also altered by Teulon.
Local climate
24, Old Gloucester 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 sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 8 applications
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