Numbers 7 and 8 and Attached Garden Wall and Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1974. A Georgian Villa. 5 related planning applications.

Numbers 7 and 8 and Attached Garden Wall and Railings

WRENN ID
guardian-vault-nettle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Camden
Constituency
Hampstead and Highgate MP: Tulip Siddiq (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 May 1974
Type
Villa
Period
Georgian
Address
Numbers 7 and 8 and Attached Garden Wall and Railings, Downshire Hill, NW3 1NR
OS grid reference
TQ 268 856
Coordinates
51.55557, -0.17097
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: sale history · EPC · related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

Numbers 7 and 8 are a semi-detached pair of villas dating from the early 19th century. They are constructed of stucco and have double-pitched roofs with a tall central chimney stack, designed in the Gothic style. The villas are three storeys high, with semi-basements, and each has a single window fronting the street. The gable fronts are battlemented.

Number 7 has a 20th-century verandah, and its entrance features pilaster-jambs supporting a cornice head, a patterned fanlight, and a panelled door. Number 8 has an entrance on its return side. Both villas have square-headed sash windows with pointed lights and dripmoulds. Cast-iron window guards are present on the ground and first floors, and a continuous sill band runs along the first floor. The interiors have not been inspected.

Attached to the villas are cast-iron railings, with torch flambe finials, set upon low garden walls.

Local climate

Numbers 7 and 8 and Attached Garden Wall and Railings 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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  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 1995
  • Related listed building consents — 5 applications
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