Number 9 and Attached Railings and Gate is a Grade II* listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 August 1950. Terraced house. 2 related planning applications.

Number 9 and Attached Railings and Gate

WRENN ID
strange-newel-sorrel
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Camden
Constituency
Hampstead and Highgate MP: Tulip Siddiq (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 August 1950
Type
Terraced house
Address
Number 9 and Attached Railings and Gate, Church Row, NW3 6UT
OS grid reference
TQ 262 856
Coordinates
51.55564, -0.17972
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Number 9 is a terraced house, likely built around 1728 by R Hughes, and later refronted in the late 18th century in a Georgian style. It is constructed of brown brick with red brick dressings and decorated cross-shaped tie plates, with a tiled roof and dormers.

The exterior is three storeys high, with an attic and basement, featuring a double-fronted facade with five windows. A doorcase, possibly reused from a former entrance at the east end, has a bracketed hood and an architraved doorway with a patterned fanlight over an enclosed panelled door. The windows are flush-frame sashes with exposed boxing, set within gauged red brick flat arches. A plain brick band runs along the first floor level and there is a parapet with a moulded brick band.

The interior is notable for its double-plan design and central open-well staircase. Each half of the house has front and rear rooms, the latter with closets. The hallway is characterised by full-height panelling with a dado rail and box cornice, with Tuscan pilasters indicating its broadening into the staircase hall. A closed-string staircase has turned balusters, moulded newels, and ramped handrails within the fully-panelled staircase hall. The front room on the ground floor (left of the door) has full-height panelling and an early 18th-century fireplace; the room to its rear has some panelling, a box cornice, and a dado rail. The rooms to the right of the hallway are also fully panelled and include Tuscan pilasters into a former alcove, now separated by a partition and door into a rear room with a closet. The first-floor front room extends the full width of the house and has bolection-moulded fireplaces at either end, along with full-height panelling, box cornices and shutters. The rear rooms and closets are also panelled, featuring ovolo mouldings and box cornices. The second floor has some horizontal boarding and cupboards. A stick baluster stair and matchboard panelling lead down to the basement.

Attached cast-iron railings with urn finials and lamp-holders flank a wrought-iron gateway with a scrolled heart design, including an overthrow and gate.

Historically, the house served as a Girls' Reformatory School in the 1860s and the Field Lane Industrial School for Girls in the 1890s.

Local climate

Number 9 and Attached Railings and Gate 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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