27, 28 and 29, Great Queen Street is a Grade II* listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1951. House. 4 related planning applications.
27, 28 and 29, Great Queen Street
- WRENN ID
- first-keystone-river
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Camden
- Constituency
- Holborn and St Pancras
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- 27, 28 and 29, Great Queen Street, WC2B 5BB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 304 812
- Coordinates
- 51.5155, -0.12143
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
27, 28 and 29 Great Queen Street is a terrace of three houses built around 1733. The buildings are constructed of brown brick with a red brick cornice below a later parapet. There is a moulded brick band at the second floor level, and the roofs are tiled with dormers. The houses feature red dressings and segmental arches above the flush frame sash windows, with Nos. 27 and 28 having three windows each, while No. 29 has two windows. The terrace is three storeys high, with attics and basements.
No. 27 has a stucco ground floor with a band at the first floor level. It features a wooden doorcase with Doric pilasters, triglyphs above, and open mutule pediments. There is an archivolt and key to semicircular fanlights, along with a panelled door and two square-headed, recessed sash windows to the right. The interior includes the original staircase.
No. 28 has a projecting earlier 19th-century shopfront with a console bracketed entablature, although the window has been altered. It also has a wooden doorcase with Doric pilasters, triglyphs above, and open mutule pediments, along with an archivolt and key to semicircular fanlights and a panelled door. The interior is virtually complete with a panelled interior and original staircase. The first-floor front room features a moulded plaster ceiling, and there are some H-L hinges. The entrance door has an interesting collection of locks, latches, and a chain.
No. 29 has a later 19th-century shopfront, and both the window and house door have been altered. The interior retains the original staircase and most of the original panelling. There is a lead rainwater head and pipe located between Nos. 28 and 29.
Local climate
27, 28 and 29, Great Queen Street 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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