18-21, Little Russell Street is a Grade II listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1977. Terrace of houses. 1 related planning application.

18-21, Little Russell Street

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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Camden
Constituency
Holborn and St Pancras
Country
England
Date first listed
9 December 1977
Type
Terrace of houses
Address
18-21, Little Russell Street, WC1A 2HL
OS grid reference
TQ 302 815
Coordinates
51.51821, -0.12468
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a terrace of four houses located at 18-21 Little Russell Street, built in the early 18th century and refronted in the mid 19th century. The houses are constructed of stucco and rise to four storeys. Each house has two windows, except for No. 18, which has three. The doorways are architraved and feature console bracketed cornices, rectangular fanlights, and panelled doors. There is a bracketed sill band at the first floor and a plain band at the third floor level. The ground, first, and second floors have architraved sash windows, with the first floor windows featuring cornices. The third floor has plain recessed sashes. The cornice includes a pulvinated frieze, although this is missing from No. 19, and there is a blocking course above. The interiors have not been inspected, but it is noted that they retain early 18th century plain panelling with box cornices and dog-leg staircases with moulded balusters.

Local climate

18-21, Little Russell 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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