Numbers 38-43 and Attached Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1969. Terrace of houses. 13 related planning applications.

Numbers 38-43 and Attached Railings

WRENN ID
nether-bracket-clover
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Camden
Constituency
Holborn and St Pancras
Country
England
Date first listed
28 March 1969
Type
Terrace of houses
Address
Numbers 38-43 and Attached Railings, Russell Square, WC1B 5DA
OS grid reference
TQ 300 818
Coordinates
51.52056, -0.12671
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a terrace of six houses built around 1800 to 1803 by James Burton. The houses are made of multi-coloured stock brick with rusticated stucco ground floors. They rise four storeys with basements and each house features three windows, except for No. 38, which has a five-window return that is mostly blind, facing Montague Place. The round-arched doorways have pilaster-jambs, cornice-heads, fanlights, sidelights, and double panelled doors. No. 38 has its entrance on the return side, featuring a stuccoed Doric projecting porch. The doorway of No. 40 has been converted for use as a window. The windows have gauged brick flat arches and recessed sashes, with cast-iron balconies on the first-floor windows. A stucco cornice is present at the third-floor level, and there are parapets above the attic storey. The interiors have not been inspected. The terrace also includes attached cast-iron railings with urn finials in front of the areas.

Local climate

Numbers 38-43 and Attached Railings 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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