Number 12 and Attached Railings, Gate and Lamp Holder is a Grade II listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 August 1950. House. 7 related planning applications.
Number 12 and Attached Railings, Gate and Lamp Holder
- WRENN ID
- endless-baluster-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Camden
- Constituency
- Hampstead and Highgate MP: Tulip Siddiq (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 August 1950
- Type
- House
- Address
- Number 12 and Attached Railings, Gate and Lamp Holder, Church Row, NW3 6UT
- OS grid reference
- TQ 262 856
- Coordinates
- 51.55561, -0.18014
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Number 12 is a terraced house, likely built around 1728 by R Hughes and refaced in the late 19th century in a Georgian style. The front is of yellow stock brick with red brick dressings, although the right-hand return shows original brown brick. It has a tiled roof with dormers.
The house is three storeys high, with an attic and a two-storey, single-window projecting bay to the right. The main facade features moulded brick bands at floor levels, Doric brick pilasters rising through the first and second floors to support a brick dentil cornice and triglyphs in the frieze above the pilasters. A late 18th-century prostyle portico has Tower of Winds capitals to the columns and carries an entablature with a fluted frieze. The doorway has panelled reveals, a patterned radial fanlight, and a panelled door. There are slightly recessed sash windows with flat arches of gauged red brick, exposed boxing, and red brick aprons. A coped parapet has recessed panels, and the projecting bay has gauged brick flat arches over recessed sashes on the ground and first floors, with a moulded brick cornice below the parapet.
Inside, the entrance hall is panelled, with flat pilasters forming an archway to the staircase hall behind, all featuring box cornices and dadoes. The staircase has a twisted baluster design on open strings, with turned ends, fluted newels, and corresponding pilasters on the dado. The house has two rooms per floor, alongside a later wing to the side. The ground floor is fully panelled, with box cornices and dadoes, and fireplaces with tin-glazed tiled surrounds. The first floor has raised and fielded panelling with box cornices; the front room has a bolection-moulded fireplace with an early grate, and the rear room has an early 18th-century fireplace with an early 19th-century grate. The second floor has dado panelling to the landing and ovolo panelling to the rooms, with box cornices, the rear room having later cupboards in front. There are 19th-century grates throughout, and a closed-string, turned baluster stair leads to the third floor. The basement has turned and twisted balusters to the stair and plank doors.
Attached to the house are cast-iron railings with patterned standards, an early 20th-century wrought-iron gate with an overthrow, and a lamp-holder.
Local climate
Number 12 and Attached Railings, Gate and Lamp Holder 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 98% 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 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 2024
- 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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