The Watch House and Attached Lamp is a Grade II listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 August 1951. House.
The Watch House and Attached Lamp
- WRENN ID
- pale-corbel-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Camden
- Constituency
- Hampstead and Highgate MP: Tulip Siddiq (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 August 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Watch House and Attached Lamp, 9, Holly Place
- OS grid reference
- TQ 262 858
- Coordinates
- 51.55717, -0.18047
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Watch House and attached lamp is an end of terrace house that was formerly a police watch house, built around 1830 and altered since. It is constructed of multi-coloured stock brick, with the ground floor painted. The building has three storeys, attics, and a semi-basement that was formerly used as cells. The main entrance is located on the left-hand return to Holly Berry Lane and features two windows. The entrance has a round arch with pilasters that support an enriched head adorned with a lion mask, a radial fanlight, and a panelled door. The windows are recessed 20th-century casements with cast-iron guards. On the Holly Place facade, there are segmental-arched casements with cast-iron guards on the ground and third floors, along with a balcony on the second floor. The interior has not been inspected. A notable feature is the attached Windsor lantern on a simple T-bracket on the Holly Berry Lane facade. Historically, the building was used by the newly formed police force from 1830 to 1834.
Local climate
The Watch House and Attached Lamp 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 98% 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 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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