Gray's Inn Square Number 1 and Attached Railings is a Grade II* listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1951. Terraced chambers. 5 related planning applications.

Gray's Inn Square Number 1 and Attached Railings

WRENN ID
outer-wicket-hyssop
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Camden
Constituency
Holborn and St Pancras
Country
England
Date first listed
24 October 1951
Type
Terraced chambers
Address
Gray's Inn Square Number 1 and Attached Railings, WC1R 5AA
OS grid reference
TQ 310 817
Coordinates
51.51938, -0.11318
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Gray's Inn Square Number 1 is a terraced chamber building dating from around 1676, with restoration completed around 1948. It is constructed of brown brick with red brick dressings and features brick bands between the floors. The building has a tiled roof and stands four storeys high, plus a cellar. It is double-fronted with eight windows. The stone doorcase includes consoles and a broken segmental pediment with a ball at the center. The windows have gauged red brick flat arches and dressings, with flush frames that include boxing and glazing bars. The eaves cornice is made of wood blocks and is bracketed.

Inside, the building is panelled and features a wood cornice, along with turned balusters and square newels leading to the dog-leg stairs. Additionally, there are attached cast-iron railings with torch flambe finials at the rear.

Local climate

Gray's Inn Square Number 1 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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