Number 2 and Attached Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1974. Terraced house. 2 related planning applications.
Number 2 and Attached Railings
- WRENN ID
- second-threshold-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Camden
- Constituency
- Holborn and St Pancras
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1974
- Type
- Terraced house
- Address
- Number 2 and Attached Railings, Great Ormond Street, WC1N 3RB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 306 820
- Coordinates
- 51.5227, -0.11782
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Number 2 is a terraced house built between 1720 and 1721, and it was refaced around 1860. It was constructed by E Chapman. The building is made of painted stucco and has four storeys plus a basement, featuring three windows. The entrance has an architraved doorway with a bracketed cornice, a fanlight, and a panelled door. The windows are architraved 2-pane sashes, with the ground and first floors having bracketed cornices. There are moulded sill strings, and similar strings are located at two-thirds the height of the windows on the second and third floors. A cornice is present at the third-floor level, topped by a parapet. The interior has not been inspected. The house is complemented by attached cast-iron railings that have pineapple finials.
Local climate
Number 2 and Attached Railings 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 — 2 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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