25, Old Gloucester Street is a Grade II listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 January 1999. School. 6 related planning applications.
25, Old Gloucester Street
- WRENN ID
- young-keystone-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Camden
- Constituency
- Holborn and St Pancras
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 January 1999
- Type
- School
- Address
- 25, Old Gloucester Street, WC1N 3AF
- OS grid reference
- TQ 303 818
- Coordinates
- 51.52084, -0.12218
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 25 Old Gloucester Street is a former boys' school, now a private residence, built between 1877 and 1878 by J and S Flint Clarkson. The building is constructed of stock brick with yellow brick and some stone dressings, topped with slate roofs, and is designed in an early Gothic style that is similar to No. 24.
It stands four storeys tall, with its main facade facing Old Gloucester Street and a shallow north front. The front is mostly symmetrical, featuring sash windows that are primarily grouped in pairs and have segment-headed tops, some of which are framed by high pointed arches above tympana. A string course runs above the ground storey. The top storey is adorned with triple gables that are stepped at the sides, with the central gable being broader and higher than the others, and chimneys positioned between the gables.
Entrances are located at the north end of the front and at the east end of the return, both featuring pointed arches under hood moulds and pointed fanlights above the doors, which enclose circular openings. On the north-east corner, there is a chamfered cornerstone inscribed with a biblical quotation and the date 1877. There is a later rear extension that lacks architectural interest.
The building forms a group with St George the Martyr Church in Queen Square and No. 24.
Local climate
25, Old Gloucester Street 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 — 6 applications
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