242, Grays Inn Road is a Grade II listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1974. Terraced house, shop. 5 related planning applications.

242, Grays Inn Road

WRENN ID
tired-chancel-holly
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Camden
Constituency
Holborn and St Pancras
Country
England
Date first listed
14 May 1974
Type
Terraced house, shop
Address
242, Grays Inn Road, WC1X 8JR
OS grid reference
TQ 308 823
Coordinates
51.52462, -0.11595
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 242 on Gray's Inn Road is a terraced house and shop built in the early 19th century. It features yellow stock brick construction. The wooden shopfront has pilasters that support an entablature with an inswept frieze and a projecting cornice. The shopfront is bowed out over a former shop window, which has been altered. There is a recessed, partially glazed shop door, while the house doorway is square-headed and includes a fanlight above a 20th-century panelled door. The upper floors have recessed four-pane sash windows with gauged brick flat arches above them. The building is topped with a parapet. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

242, Grays Inn Road 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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