Lincoln Chambers is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1987. Chambers. 4 related planning applications.
Lincoln Chambers
- WRENN ID
- turning-shingle-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 December 1987
- Type
- Chambers
- Address
- Lincoln Chambers, 2-4, Portsmouth Street Wc2, City of Westminster, WC2A 2ES
- OS grid reference
- TQ 307 812
- Coordinates
- 51.51477, -0.11705
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lincoln Chambers is a building constructed around 1905, designed in a style similar to that of H Fuller Clark. It features ceramic brick and Portland stone dressings, topped with a slate roof. This original Edwardian Free Style design serves as offices and consists of three storeys plus an attic, with a width of seven windows.
The ground floor is stone-faced and includes a central, wide, recessed porch under a lintel. The sides of the porch are splayed in, featuring a semicircular fanlight above a central panelled and glazed door, which is flanked by a side door and a window, both with arched heads. There is notable Arts and Crafts lettering in gold mosaic on the name panel above the lintel. On either side of the recessed porch are two large office windows, each with three ashlar flat-mullioned lights above small-paned glazing and tall risers leading to the basement.
The upper floors are adorned with box framed sash windows, including a central Diocletian window on the first floor and tripartite squat-columned windows on the second floor. The outermost windows are designed as two-storey, canted, flat stone mullioned bays beneath gables. The building features deep stone eaves cornices that run between coped gables, and there are coursed dormers in the steep roof. Lincoln Chambers is part of an interesting island block development, which includes No 3 St Clement's Lane.
Local climate
Lincoln Chambers 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 — 4 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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