Corams Field Playground Memorial Pavilion is a Grade II listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 January 1999. Pavilion. 5 related planning applications.

Corams Field Playground Memorial Pavilion

WRENN ID
pitched-cellar-wren
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Camden
Constituency
Holborn and St Pancras
Country
England
Date first listed
11 January 1999
Type
Pavilion
Address
Corams Field Playground Memorial Pavilion, Guilford Street, WC1N 1DN
OS grid reference
TQ 305 822
Coordinates
51.52441, -0.11997
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Coram's Field Playground Memorial Pavilion is a memorial structure that serves as a playground shelter, built in 1936 by L.H. Bucknell in memory of Harold Vyvyan and Vere Harmsworth. The pavilion is designed in a Swedish-influenced Classical style, featuring brick and render construction with copper roofs. It has a central rotunda with columns at the open front, which supports a relief frieze depicting contemporary children at play. The rotunda is topped with a conical roof that has projecting bracketed eaves, and it is crowned by a globular clock and an iron weathervane. At the back of the rotunda, there is a lower brick range that extends to form wings, each containing a single window. The rear wall features a horizontally set window, and part of the rotunda drum rises through the roof at the back.

Local climate

Corams Field Playground Memorial Pavilion 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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