5, Great Queen Street is a Grade II listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 April 1979. House. 3 related planning applications.
5, Great Queen Street
- WRENN ID
- south-threshold-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Camden
- Constituency
- Holborn and St Pancras
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 April 1979
- Type
- House
- Address
- 5, Great Queen Street, WC2B 5DG
- OS grid reference
- TQ 305 813
- Coordinates
- 51.51625, -0.12017
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 5 Great Queen Street is a terraced house dating from the early to mid-18th century, with a late 19th-century front. It is constructed of red brick with stone dressings and stands four storeys tall. The late 19th-century shopfront features four large round-headed panes, one of which is part of the entrance, divided by twisted cast-iron colonnettes. Above the shopfront, there is continuous glazing on each floor, divided into four sections by cast-iron columns that support continuous stone lintels. The building is topped with a cornice and a parapet.
Inside, the staircase has an open string on the lower flights and is closed above, with paired newel posts and twisted balusters, three to each step. Some balusters may be replacements, as there are both earlier and later types present. The interior also features a panelled dado, original doors, and panelling in the first-floor rooms, although the overdoors and the first-floor front fireplace date from around 1900. The ground floor office retains some original panelling as well.
Local climate
5, Great Queen 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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