Number 1 and Attached Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 March 1973. House. 1 related planning application.

Number 1 and Attached Railings

WRENN ID
scattered-minaret-falcon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Camden
Constituency
Holborn and St Pancras
Country
England
Date first listed
1 March 1973
Type
House
Address
Number 1 and Attached Railings, Bloomsbury Square, WC1A 2AJ
OS grid reference
TQ 303 815
Coordinates
51.51821, -0.12246
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Number 1 is a terraced house built between 1840 and 1850, forming the right side of a symmetrical facade with Nos 46 and 47 Bloomsbury Square. The building features darkened brick with a rusticated stucco ground floor and stucco block quoins. It has a stucco cornice, a blocking course, and a sill band at the third floor. The slate mansard roof includes dormers, and the house has four storeys, an attic, and a basement. There are two windows and a square-headed, recessed doorway with a fanlight and a panelled door. A continuous cast-iron balcony at the first floor level displays a palmette motif. The square-headed, architraved sash windows on the first floor have bracketed cornices. The interior has not been inspected. The property also has attached cast-iron railings with foliated finials to the areas.

Local climate

Number 1 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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