Numbers 12 and 13 and Attached Railings is a Grade I listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1951. House.
Numbers 12 and 13 and Attached Railings
- WRENN ID
- distant-obsidian-poplar
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Camden
- Constituency
- Holborn and St Pancras
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- Numbers 12 and 13 and Attached Railings, New Square
- OS grid reference
- TQ 310 813
- Coordinates
- 51.51605, -0.11328
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Numbers 12 and 13 New Square are two terraced chambers built in 1534, with later alterations. They are constructed of brown brick and rise four storeys high, featuring four irregularly spaced windows on each building. The wide, projecting chimney-stacks extend from the ground to the full height of the buildings, with one separating the two chambers and another located to the right of No. 13, indicating that they were part of the rear of the Tudor range. The buildings have gauged red brick flat and segmental arches, along with dressings to flush framed windows that have exposed boxing and 18th-century glazing bars. The parapets are adorned with small pointed gables, with three on No. 12 and two on No. 13.
No. 12, which dates from the late 18th century, features a wooden doorcase with fluted half pilasters, an architrave, paterae on the frieze, and a dentil cornice. The interior has not been inspected but is noted to be greatly altered. No. 13, dating from the late 17th century, has a wooden doorcase with carved consoles, a pulvinated frieze, and a broken segmental pediment. Its interior has also not been inspected but is noted to be altered, with late 16th or early 17th-century overmantels present in some rooms. The buildings are complemented by attached cast-iron railings. Numbers 12 and 13 New Square were formed from the rear of No. 16 Old Buildings.
Local climate
Numbers 12 and 13 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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