85c, 87 and 89, Royal College Street is a Grade II listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1974. Terrace of houses.
85c, 87 and 89, Royal College Street
- WRENN ID
- first-lime-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Camden
- Constituency
- Holborn and St Pancras
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1974
- Type
- Terrace of houses
- OS grid reference
- TQ 294 837
- Coordinates
- 51.53785, -0.13531
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a terrace of three houses located at 85C, 87, and 89 Royal College Street, built in the early to mid 19th century. The houses are constructed of darkened stock brick, featuring a rusticated stucco ground floor and a plain stucco sill band on the first floor. The corners are accentuated with stucco quoins. Each house has three storeys and two windows. The doorways are square-headed with vermiculated keystones, overlights, and panelled doors, with No. 89 having a partially glazed door. The ground floor has tripartite sash windows, also with vermiculated keystones, while the upper floors feature architraved sashes, with the first floor having cornices supported by console brackets. The terrace is topped with a stucco parapet that has a cornice cut back. The interiors have not been inspected.
Local climate
85c, 87 and 89, Royal College 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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