Numbers 5-17 and Attached Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1971. A Early to mid 19th century Terrace of houses. 1 related planning application.
Numbers 5-17 and Attached Railings
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-hammer-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Camden
- Constituency
- Holborn and St Pancras
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 October 1971
- Type
- Terrace of houses
- Period
- Early to mid 19th century
- Address
- Numbers 5-17 and Attached Railings, Swinton Street, WC1X 9NL
- OS grid reference
- TQ 307 828
- Coordinates
- 51.52911, -0.11657
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Numbers 5-17 and their attached railings form a terrace of seven houses built around 1835-44. The houses are constructed of darkened stock brick with rusticated stucco to the ground floors, with numbers 15 and 17 painted. A plain first-floor sill band runs across the facade. The buildings are three storeys high with basements. Each house originally had two windows.
The ground floor features round-arched openings, with the exception of number 17. Doorways are framed by fluted quarter columns topped with cornice-heads, above fanlights and panelled doors. Number 17's doorway has pilaster-jambs supporting a dentil cornice-head, fanlight, and panelled door. Gauged brick flat arches frame recessed sash windows with glazing bars; the ground floor sashes of numbers 5, 11, and 13 have margin glazing. At number 17, the first-floor windows are architraved sashes with bracketed cornices. Cast-iron balconies are present to all first-floor windows. The houses have stucco cornices with blocking courses. The interiors have not been inspected.
Attached cast-iron railings with urn finials define the areas.
Local climate
Numbers 5-17 and Attached Railings 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 — 2 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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