15-23, Southampton Row is a Grade II listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1974. Shopping parade with offices. 22 related planning applications.
15-23, Southampton Row
- WRENN ID
- solitary-threshold-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Camden
- Constituency
- Holborn and St Pancras
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1974
- Type
- Shopping parade with offices
- OS grid reference
- TQ 304 815
- Coordinates
- 51.51822, -0.121
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
15-23 Southampton Row is a shopping parade with offices, previously flats, located at the south-east corner of Sicilian Avenue. It was built between 1906 and 1910 by architect R.J. Worley for the Bedford Estate and has been altered in the 20th century. The building is constructed of red brick with white terracotta details and features a slate roof.
The exterior consists of four storeys with four and a half window bays, plus a four-storey tourelle that has 2-light transom and mullion windows starting from the first floor on the right side facing Sicilian Avenue. The ground floor has modern plate glass windows but retains the original first-floor design, which can be compared to Nos 25-35 Southampton Row. Corinthian columns on plinths support an entablature with a plain terracotta frieze at the new first-floor level. There is a goods entrance on the left. The first, second, and third floors feature three-light windows on the left, followed by three canted bay windows with five lights, and single-light recessed windows on the right. All windows include terracotta transoms and mullions, and a terracotta modillion cornice runs along the top. Above the second-to-last bays are pedimented gables with small Venetian windows. The tourelle's fourth floor rises above the cornice and is topped with a conical roof.
The interiors were not inspected. Nos 15-23 Southampton Row are part of a cohesive development alongside Nos 1-29 (odd) and 6-20 (even) Sicilian Avenue, as well as Nos 25-35 (odd) and 35A Southampton Row and Nos 1-6 Vernon Place.
Local climate
15-23, Southampton Row 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 22 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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