St Andrews Parochial Schools Wren House And Attached Railings

Wren House and the attached railings are located at 43 Hatton Garden, Camden. This building, formerly known as St Andrew's Parochial Schools, was constructed around 1670 to replace St Andrews Holborn after the Great Fire of 1666. It was adapted as a Chantry School around 1696. The building was gutted during the Second World War but has been rebuilt internally, while the facade has been restored. It is believed to have been erected by Lord Hatton, possibly to designs by Sir Christopher Wren.

The exterior features brown brick with stone rusticated quoins and a brick band below the parapet, topped with a 20th-century tiled roof. The building is two storeys high and double fronted with three windows. The facade facing Hatton Garden has a slightly projecting central bay that includes a stone doorcase with consoles, a pulvinated frieze, and a segmental pediment. On either side of this bay are stone corbel supports featuring painted stone figures of a boy and girl in 18th-century costume. Above the central bay is a semicircular arched window with a stone key, and the bay is topped by an open stucco pediment. The bays on either side have transom and mullion windows with flat arches and stone keys on the ground floor, while the first floor features semicircular arched windows with stone keystones. The stone-capped parapet completes the facade.

The elevation facing Cross Street is similar but has a three-window central bay without a pediment, and the figures are missing. The left-hand bay features square-headed windows on both the ground and first floors, while the ground floor window to the right of the door is the only one with a keystone.

The property also includes attached wrought-iron railings with geometrical panels. The interior has not been inspected.