31, Pond Street is a Grade II listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1974. Terraced house. 6 related planning applications.
31, Pond Street
- WRENN ID
- carved-steeple-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Camden
- Constituency
- Hampstead and Highgate MP: Tulip Siddiq (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1974
- Type
- Terraced house
- Address
- 31, Pond Street, NW3 2PN
- OS grid reference
- TQ 272 855
- Coordinates
- 51.55407, -0.16635
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 31 Pond Street is a terraced house dating from circa 1832, with alterations made in the mid-20th century by Ernst Freud. The house is constructed of stucco and has two storeys and four windows. A square-headed doorway is marked by pilasters supporting an entablature. Above the door is a patterned overlight, and the panelled door sits on a tiled threshold, all approached by a tessellated path. The ground floor windows are architraved sashes with margin glazing. The first-floor windows are architraved casements, also with margin glazing, blind boxes, and cast-iron balconies. The building is finished with a cornice and blocking course. The interior remains uninspected. The house was formerly the home of Sir Julian Huxley, a biologist and first director general of UNESCO, who lived there from 1943 to 1975, a fact commemorated by a plaque.
Local climate
31, Pond 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 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2025
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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