23, Austin Friars EC2 is a Grade II listed building in the City of London local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1972. Commercial building. 1 related planning application.
23, Austin Friars EC2
- WRENN ID
- third-obsidian-snow
- 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 building
- Address
- 23, Austin Friars EC2, City and County of the City of London, EC2N 2QP
- OS grid reference
- TQ 328 813
- Coordinates
- 51.51565, -0.08614
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 23 Austin Friars is a building from 1888, designed by Aston Webb and possibly Ingress Bell. It features a Portland stone front in a late Gothic style. The structure has three storeys, a basement, and dormers. There are three wide windows beneath five-centred arches, with the central openings above the entrance at mezzanine level, providing light to the staircase. The windows have wooden mullions and transoms. The building is topped with a cornice and includes two stone dormers, along with another dormer set back in the centre. Additionally, there are two ornamental rainwater heads.
Local climate
23, Austin Friars EC2 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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