Nos. 41 and 42, CLOTH FAIR is a Grade II* listed building in the City of London local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 January 1950. Offices. 7 related planning applications.
Nos. 41 and 42, CLOTH FAIR
- WRENN ID
- proud-zinc-myrtle
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- City of London
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 January 1950
- Type
- Offices
- Address
- Nos. 41 and 42, CLOTH FAIR, Cloth Fair Ec1, City and County of the City of London
- OS grid reference
- TQ 319 817
- Coordinates
- 51.51896, -0.10004
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 41 and 42 on Cloth Fair is an early 17th-century house that has been converted into offices. It was restored by Seeley and Paget in 1930. The building is made of red corner brick and has four storeys, plus an additional storey in a tiled roof with a hipped, boarded gable facing the street. The ground storey features an arcade, which is largely modern. Above, there are pairs of two-storeyed timber bay windows that now have casement windows. The building includes brick storey bands and a timber eaves cornice.
Inside, there is a fine panelled room on the second floor with much early woodwork, and a similar room with painted panelling on the floor below. A 17th-century staircase leads from the second floor to the attic. This building is particularly noteworthy as it survived the Great Fire of London, and the restoration by Seeley and Paget was both sensitive and archaeologically accurate.
Local climate
Nos. 41 and 42, CLOTH FAIR 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 — 7 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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