Glen House is a Grade II listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 January 1999. Office. 21 related planning applications.
Glen House
- WRENN ID
- dim-nave-fog
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Camden
- Constituency
- Holborn and St Pancras
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 January 1999
- Type
- Office
- Address
- Glen House, Alfred Mews, W1T 7PL
- OS grid reference
- TQ 295 818
- Coordinates
- 51.52071, -0.1341
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Glen House is a light industrial building that has been converted into offices. The southern half, known as Nos. 204-208, was constructed between 1913 and 1914 by architects Hobden and Porri, while the northern half, Nos. 200-203, was built around 1923 in a similar style by Ernest Souster. Originally, it was built for the Bosch Magneto Company and features a Mannerist architectural style.
The building stands five storeys tall and consists of 13 bays. The ground floor openings are flanked by pillars with grooved panels and rectangular blocks. The upper floors display austere full-height pilasters that culminate in intricate Mannerist brackets, which support a parapet adorned with geometrically patterned cast-iron railings and stone dies. The windows from the first to the third floors are metal-framed with half-columns, transoms, and mullions, along with enriched spandrel panels; the third floor windows are topped with stone arched heads. The fourth floor features metal-framed windows with stone half-columns flanked by brackets. A clock inscribed "Glen House" is mounted on an elaborately enriched wall bracket at the first floor level. The design extends to the returns on Alfred Mews and Chenies Street, with the Alfred Mews facade showcasing a triple doorway supported by grooved pilasters. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Glen House 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 2019
- Related listed building consents — 21 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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