University College Hospital Medical School, Nurses Home 1907 Building and Attached Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 November 1990. Hospital. 14 related planning applications.
University College Hospital Medical School, Nurses Home 1907 Building and Attached Railings
- WRENN ID
- hidden-railing-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Camden
- Constituency
- Holborn and St Pancras
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 November 1990
- Type
- Hospital
- Address
- University College Hospital Medical School, Nurses Home 1907 Building and Attached Railings, Gower Street
- OS grid reference
- TQ 295 821
- Coordinates
- 51.52361, -0.1346
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The University College Hospital Medical School, specifically the part of the Nurses Home adjacent to the junction of University Street and Huntley Street, was built in 1905 by Paul Waterhouse. This building is constructed of red brick with stone dressings and features banded quoining, topped with slate roofs, and is designed in the Edwardian Baroque style.
The entrance front facing Gower Street is a three-storey, seven-bay range. Its central feature is a projecting broken segmental pediment supported by a giant order of Ionic pilasters, which flank an Ionic portico set within a semicircular archway. The ground floor exhibits channelled rustication with keyed flat arches over metal casement windows. The first-floor windows are similar, set within moulded stone architraves that include cornices and central segmental pediments. The 20th-century second-floor windows are located beneath a moulded stone cornice and parapet.
The elevation facing University Street is capped by pedimented blocks featuring giant orders of Ionic pilasters above a rusticated ground floor. A central projecting pedimented block with banded quoining showcases giant order Ionic half-columns resting on two rusticated floors, with flat-roofed dormers on the roof. The rear elevation facing Huntley Street also has channelled rustication on the two lower floors, topped with a dentilled cornice over a central entrance bay that includes an Ionic portico set in a cavetto-moulded semicircular arch. Above this, square-headed cavetto-moulded window architraves are positioned over two bow windows supported by Ionic columns. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
University College Hospital Medical School, Nurses Home 1907 Building 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 14 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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