Numbers 16 and 17 and Attached Garden Walls, Railings, Gate Piers and Gate is a Grade II listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1974. Terraced houses with garden walls and railings. 8 related planning applications.
Numbers 16 and 17 and Attached Garden Walls, Railings, Gate Piers and Gate
- WRENN ID
- distant-copper-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Camden
- Constituency
- Hampstead and Highgate MP: Tulip Siddiq (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1974
- Type
- Terraced houses with garden walls and railings
- Address
- Numbers 16 and 17 and Attached Garden Walls, Railings, Gate Piers and Gate, Downshire Hill, NW3 1NT
- OS grid reference
- TQ 269 857
- Coordinates
- 51.5562, -0.16991
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A pair of terraced houses dating to circa 1823, designed to appear as a single dwelling. The houses are constructed of yellow stock brick. They are two storeys high and each has two windows, with slightly recessed entrance bays and a projecting central bay containing a blind window on each floor. The doorways have gauged brick round arches, stucco keystones, and impost bands, with patterned fanlights and panelled doors. Gauged brick flat arches feature over the recessed sash windows. The entrance bays have stone-coped parapets, while the central bays have a projecting stone cornice and a taller, stone-coped parapet. A first-floor central blind window incorporates a lugged tablet inscribed "Portland Place 1823", with a fire insurance plaque below. The interiors were not inspected. Attached are low brick garden walls with cast-iron railings featuring urn finials, along with gate piers and gates.
Local climate
Numbers 16 and 17 and Attached Garden Walls, Railings, Gate Piers and Gate 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 — 3 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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