Numbers 50 and 51 and Attached Area Walls and Balustrade is a Grade II listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1974. Terraced house. 3 related planning applications.
Numbers 50 and 51 and Attached Area Walls and Balustrade
- WRENN ID
- knotted-porch-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Camden
- Constituency
- Hampstead and Highgate MP: Tulip Siddiq (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1974
- Type
- Terraced house
- Address
- Numbers 50 and 51 and Attached Area Walls and Balustrade, Downshire Hill, NW3 1PA
- OS grid reference
- TQ 268 855
- Coordinates
- 51.55486, -0.17124
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A pair of terraced houses dating from the mid-19th century, located on Downshire Hill in Camden. The houses are constructed of stucco and extend over three storeys, with attics and basements.
Number 50 has four windows. A central, prostyle portico features pilaster-jambs, a cornice-head, a patterned fanlight, and a panelled door, all approached by steps with attached cast-iron railings. The ground floor windows are architraved casements; a four-light window is to the left of the porch, and a two-light window with margin glazing and a cast-iron balcony is to the right. The first-floor windows are also architraved casements with console bracketed pediments, margin glazing, and a continuous cast-iron balcony. The right-hand pediment has been replaced by a later architraved four-pane sash. A cornice and blocking course is present, and a 20th-century dormer has been added.
Number 51 features one window and a two-storey recessed entrance extension. It has a doorway with pilasters, a bracketed hood, a fanlight, and a panelled door. The casements are similar to those of Number 50, and the first floor has a two-light window above a pediment. A cornice and blocking course are also present. The interiors were not inspected.
Attached to both houses is a stucco balustrade on a dwarf brick wall enclosing the areas.
Local climate
Numbers 50 and 51 and Attached Area Walls and Balustrade 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 98% 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 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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