12, Floral Street WC2 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 January 1973. Former parish schools. 27 related planning applications.
12, Floral Street WC2
- WRENN ID
- lunar-flagstone-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 January 1973
- Type
- Former parish schools
- Address
- 12, Floral Street WC2, City of Westminster, WC2E 9DH
- OS grid reference
- TQ 302 809
- Coordinates
- 51.51237, -0.12434
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 12 Floral Street, located in the City of Westminster, is a former parish school built in 1838 by E.H. Browne and later altered and largely refronted by C.G. Searle in 1860. The building is constructed of stucco with a slate roof and is designed in an Italianate style, likely recommended by Charles Parker, the Bedford Estate Surveyor.
The three-storey front is set back, featuring a four-storey entrance and staircase tower that projects to the building line. The façade is four windows wide, with the entrance located at the base of the tower. This entrance includes an archivolt keyed arch, a panelled door, and a blind lunette above, which has a date tablet from 1860. The recessed front displays tall, closely set windows with architraves and archivolt arches on each floor, featuring radial glazing in their heads. One ground floor window has been partly altered to serve as a door.
Additional architectural details include a panelled applied pedestal beneath the first-floor windows, a bracketed sill course on the second floor, and a crowning cornice that returns over the tower. The tower itself is designed as a belvedere-campanile, featuring rusticated quoins and a bracketed eaves cornice that supports a pyramidal roof covered in lead.
Local climate
12, Floral Street WC2 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 — 27 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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