Hamilton House is a Grade II listed building in the City of London local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1972. Commercial. 6 related planning applications.
Hamilton House
- WRENN ID
- plain-corridor-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- City of London
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1972
- Type
- Commercial
- Address
- Hamilton House, Victoria Embankment, Ec4, City and County of the City of London, EC4Y 0HA
- OS grid reference
- TQ 313 808
- Coordinates
- 51.5114, -0.10827
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hamilton House is an ornamented, gabled building located on Victoria Embankment, constructed between 1898 and 1901 by Sir William Emerson. It is made of Portland stone and features four main storeys along with dormers. The doorway is dated 1899 and the building has returns to Temple Avenue and Inner Temple Garden. Hamilton House also includes No 1 Temple Avenue.
Local climate
Hamilton 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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