Park House and Garden House is a Grade II listed building in the City of London local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 1977. Commercial building. 9 related planning applications.
Park House and Garden House
- WRENN ID
- fossil-loft-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- City of London
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 November 1977
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- Park House and Garden House, 16 and 18, Finsbury Circus Ec2, City and County of the City of London, EC2M 7EB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 329 816
- Coordinates
- 51.5182, -0.08548
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Park House and Garden House, located at 16 and 18 Finsbury Circus, was designed in 1915 and completed around 1920-21 after the war by Gordon and Gunton for S. Pearson & Co. The building features a stone-clad steel frame with a ground floor and first floor that have channeled projecting outer bays. It has a slate mansard roof with dormers and cast iron cresting, showcasing a monumental classical style that follows the curve of the crescent.
The structure consists of six storeys, an attic, and a basement, with a total of 11 bays. The outer bays have concave corners and three grouped two-pane sash windows on each floor, slightly bowed from the second to the fourth floors, and they terminate with Diocletian attic windows. The main bays feature round-arched windows on the ground floor and a Doric portico at each penultimate bay. From the first to the fifth floor, there are paired two-pane sashes in each bay, articulated by engaged Ionic columns, with a balustrade on the second floor. The upper levels are adorned with a frieze and a heavy modillion cornice, with the attic bays also articulated by carved cartouches.
The basement area is enclosed by attached cast iron railings. The rear facade is stone-clad in a simplified classical style, featuring 16 windows, with four in slightly projecting end bays that have hooded balconies on the second floor.
Local climate
Park House and Garden House 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 — 9 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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