HD 25274, also known as HR 1241, is a solitary star located in the northern circumpolar constellation Camelopardalis. It is faintly visible to the naked eye as a red hued point of light with an apparent magnitude of 5.86. Gaia DR3 parallax measurements imply a distance of 597 light-years and it is currently drifting closer with a heliocentric radial velocity of . At its current distance, HD 25274's brightness is diminished by three-tenths of a magnitude due to interstellar extinction and it has an absolute magnitude of −0.51.
HD 25274 has a stellar classification of M0 III, indicating that it is an evolved red giant. However, the Bright Star Catalog gives a hotter classification of K2 III. The spectrophotometry-measured angular diameter, after correcting for limb darkening, is . At the estimated distance for HD 25274, this yields a physical radius 39.8 times that of the Sun. It also has an empirical radius of and Gaia DR3 models a larger radius. The object radiates 762 times the luminosity of the Sun from its enlarged photosphere at an effective temperature of . HD 25274 is metal deficient with an iron abundance 62% that of the Sun's ([Fe/H] = −0.21) and it spins modestly with a projected rotational velocity of . HD 25274 is a field star of the HIP 21974 cluster.
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