Numbers 25-35 and 35a and Attached Screen to Sicilian Avenue is a Grade II listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1974. Shopping parade. 10 related planning applications.
Numbers 25-35 and 35a and Attached Screen to Sicilian Avenue
- WRENN ID
- salt-pillar-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Camden
- Constituency
- Holborn and St Pancras
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1974
- Type
- Shopping parade
- Address
- Numbers 25-35 and 35a and Attached Screen to Sicilian Avenue, Southampton Row, WC1B 5HJ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 304 816
- Coordinates
- 51.51862, -0.12116
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Numbers 25-35 and 35A Southampton Row, along with the attached screen to Sicilian Avenue, is a shopping parade with offices that were formerly flats, built between 1906 and 1910 by architect R.J. Worley for the Bedford Estate. The building is constructed of red brick with white terracotta dressings and features five storeys with eight window bays, plus a four-storey tourelle.
The exterior includes two-light transom and mullion windows starting from the second floor on the left-hand return to Sicilian Avenue. The ground floor has later 20th-century shopfronts separated by Corinthian columns on plinths, which support an entablature with a plain terracotta frieze at the second floor level. There are pilasters at the corners, and the first floor features square-headed four-light casement windows. The second, third, and fourth floors have a mix of canted five-light bay windows and groups of square-headed windows, all adorned with terracotta transoms and mullions. The windows have small leaded panes, with some displaying shields.
At the top, there is a central pedimented gable with oriels rising from the third floor on either side, and a modillion cornice. The tourelle's fourth storey is above the cornice and is topped with a conical roof. The interiors were not inspected.
Attached to No. 25 is a Classical screen across Sicilian Avenue, featuring three Ionic columns on plinths that support an entablature inscribed with the words "Sicilian Avenue," topped by a balustrade with urns on the two central piers. Numbers 25-35 and 35A Southampton Row form a cohesive architectural development with nearby buildings on Sicilian Avenue and Southampton Row.
Local climate
Numbers 25-35 and 35a and Attached Screen to Sicilian Avenue 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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- Related listed building consents — 10 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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