Big Chill House is a Grade II listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1974. Public house. 7 related planning applications.
Big Chill House
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Camden
- Constituency
- Holborn and St Pancras
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1974
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Big Chill House, 259, Pentonville Road, London, N1 9NL
- OS grid reference
- TQ 305 829
- Coordinates
- 51.53078, -0.1199
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Big Chill House is a public house located at 259 Pentonville Road in Camden, dating from the mid-19th century. The building is constructed of stucco and features three storeys and cellars. Its symmetrical design includes five bays, with the end bays slightly projecting. The ground floor has a public house frontage adorned with granite pilasters that support an entablature with a dentil cornice. Above the entrances are segmental pediments with enriched tympani. The windows on the ground floor are modern, featuring large panes.
Fluted Corinthian pilasters extend through the first and second floors, paired to flank the end bays and return, supporting an entablature. The frieze above the paired pilasters includes wreaths, and the parapet is finished with dies without balusters. The first-floor windows are architraved and recessed, with cornices, and the central and end bays feature tripartite arrangements.
The interior of the ground floor bar was entirely stripped out during an inspection in January 1995. Overall, the exterior of Big Chill House is a particularly attractive example of a mid-19th century public house.
Local climate
Big Chill House 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 — 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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