8-15, Old Square and attached railings is a Grade II listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1974. House. 19 related planning applications.
8-15, Old Square and attached railings
- WRENN ID
- waiting-hall-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Camden
- Constituency
- Holborn and St Pancras
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- 8-15, Old Square and attached railings, Lincoln's Inn, WC2A 3UE
- OS grid reference
- TQ 310 814
- Coordinates
- 51.51686, -0.11282
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 8-15 Old Square is a group of eight terraced chambers built in the 19th century. Nos. 8-10 were constructed in 1874 by Sir George Gilbert Scott, while Nos. 11-15 were built between 1878 and 1886 by J. Oldrid Scott. The buildings are designed in the Tudor style, featuring red brick with blue diaper patterns and stone dressings, and they have slate roofs topped with tall decorative brick chimney pots. Notably, No. 13 has a pyramid roof over one bay.
The ground floor has a stone plinth moulding, and the buildings rise to four storeys. The entrances are square-headed with moulded arches, and No. 15 has a lamp above it, accessed by steps with solid brick balustrades that have moulded capping. Nos. 8-13 feature moulded stone drip strings at each floor level. The windows are square-headed with transoms and mullions; Nos. 8-10 have cusped ogee tracery and cusped lancets, with some windows forming bays. No. 15 boasts enriched terracotta aprons on the first, second, and third floor windows, with geometrical tracery above the entrance. Nos. 8-11 have a cornice at the third floor, accompanied by an enriched band below. The buildings are topped with embattled parapets and gables that are capped by finials. Additionally, there are lead rainwater heads and pipes.
The interiors have not been inspected. The property also features attached cast-iron railings in front of the areas.
Local climate
8-15, Old Square 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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- Related listed building consents — 19 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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