The Whalebones is a Grade II listed building in the Barnet local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 February 1973. House. 5 related planning applications.
The Whalebones
- WRENN ID
- deep-shingle-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Barnet
- Constituency
- Chipping Barnet MP: Dan Tomlinson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 February 1973
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Whalebones, Wood Street, EN5 4BZ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 234 962
- Coordinates
- 51.65171, -0.21658
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Whalebones is an early 19th-century building located on the south side of Wood Street. It is two storeys high and constructed of stucco. The façade features three sash windows, with the outer windows slightly bowed within a curved section of the wall. There is a central solid stuccoed porch that has a hipped slate roof and curved-headed windows on the sides. The building has plain overhanging eaves and a hipped slate roof. The ground floor windows are French casements.
Local climate
The Whalebones sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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