127 and 129, High Holborn is a Grade II listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1974. Bank/office. 11 related planning applications.
127 and 129, High Holborn
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-foundation-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Camden
- Constituency
- Holborn and St Pancras
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1974
- Type
- Bank/office
- Address
- 127 and 129, High Holborn, WC1V 6PQ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 304 815
- Coordinates
- 51.51759, -0.12172
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
127 and 129 High Holborn is an office block, now functioning as a bank, built around 1904 by architects H Percy Adams and Charles Holden. The building is constructed from Portland stone with a granite ground floor and features four storeys plus an attic. It has four bays facing High Holborn, a splayed corner, and a four-bay return to Southampton Place. Designed in a Free Classical style, it includes rusticated pilasters between the bays that support a sill string at the third floor level. The corner entrance is round-arched and has a bracketed stone balcony above it. The windows are architraved, with those on the first floor featuring broken cornices that alternate with a Venetian style. A bracketed cornice runs along the top, leading to the attic, and the corner of the building is topped with a turret. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
127 and 129, High Holborn 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 11 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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