Summit House and Attached Railings and Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 July 1981. Office block. 7 related planning applications.
Summit House and Attached Railings and Wall
- WRENN ID
- dim-stronghold-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Camden
- Constituency
- Holborn and St Pancras
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 July 1981
- Type
- Office block
- Address
- Summit House and Attached Railings and Wall, Red Lion Square, WC1R 4QH
- OS grid reference
- TQ 306 816
- Coordinates
- 51.51881, -0.11884
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Summit House is an office block built in 1925 by architects Westwood and Emberton for Austin Reed. The building features a steel frame covered with deep yellow faience, highlighting its grid-like design. It stands six storeys tall, with a three-storey stair bay on the left side and eight window bays plus the stair bay. The return section facing Dane Street is four storeys high with ten windows. The bays are defined by plain faience cladding strips that extend to a simple blocking course.
The entrance is recessed and has wooden doors that include two carved panels from the original doors, designed by Percy Metcalfe, showcasing Austin Reed products such as ties, collars, socks, and waistcoats. One panel features a letter box with carved envelopes, the word "letters," and a lion, while the other has a date panel also carved with a lion. The building has metal-framed windows with spandrel panels that display geometric faience relief decoration. The three-storey stair bay has a slightly protruding black-painted metal bay that rises through the storeys and is fitted with narrow vertically set windows.
The interior has not been inspected. The property also includes attached decorative iron railings with curved spikes on a stone wall surrounding the area.
Local climate
Summit House and Attached Railings and Wall 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2019
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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