WC Postcode Area: Damp, Mould & Leak Detection by District

The WC postcode area

The WC postcode area is the West Central district of the London post town, divided in 1917 into WC1 (Bloomsbury, Holborn, King’s Cross, Gray’s Inn) and WC2 (Covent Garden, the Strand, Holborn, Lincoln’s Inn, Leicester Square), each split into lettered sub-districts. It covers parts of Camden and Westminster, with small pieces of Islington and the City of London: a compact area of two districts in the middle of the capital.

The housing is Georgian squares and terraces in Bloomsbury, mansion blocks and university and hospital buildings, Peabody and council estates around Holborn and King’s Cross, and flats above shops and offices across Covent Garden and the Strand. Deep plans, basements, lightwells and shared services mean leaks here are usually traced across several floors or between neighbouring buildings.

The two districts below list the places inside them and the borough page for each. Lettered sub-districts sit under their number.

How the WC districts fall by council. In our directory Camden has places in WC1 to WC2; City of London and Westminster in WC2, all of them in Greater London. The post town for every district is London.

Housing in Camden (Census 2021), the main council area for WC postcodes in our directory: owner-occupiers make up 30% of 92,758 households, private renters 36% and social renters 34%. Purpose-built flats account for 56% of homes, converted and other flats 30%, terraced houses 8%, semi-detached houses 4% and detached houses 2%.Source: ONS Census 2021, tables TS054 (tenure) and TS044 (accommodation type), via Nomis.