The Crafts Centre is a Grade II listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 January 1973. Warehouse. 16 related planning applications.
The Crafts Centre
- WRENN ID
- fallow-chalk-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Camden
- Constituency
- Holborn and St Pancras
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 January 1973
- Type
- Warehouse
- Address
- The Crafts Centre, 8-26, Short's Gardens
- OS grid reference
- TQ 301 811
- Coordinates
- 51.51396, -0.12632
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Crafts Centre, located at 29-41 Earlham Street and 25 Neal Street in Camden, is a warehouse, likely originally a brewery, dating to the mid-19th century. It now operates as a crafts centre. The building is constructed of stock brick, with the roof largely obscured. It is three storeys in height, comprising nineteen bays facing Earlham Street. Number 43 features a splayed corner with a return to Neal Street. The two-storey elevation facing Short’s Gardens is also part of the listed structure. A brick band runs above the ground floor. The windows and doorways have segmental heads, with those on the ground floor of the Earlham Street elevation set within segmental headed reveals. The interior features a brick barrel vault structure supported by cast-iron columns. The Short's Gardens elevation, comprising numbers 8-26, was also listed on 10 March 1988 and is considered with the Earlham Street portion of the Crafts Centre.
Local climate
The Crafts Centre 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 — 15 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 16 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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