Number 20 and Attached Garden Wall, 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. Residential. 4 related planning applications.
Number 20 and Attached Garden Wall, Railings, Gate Piers and Gate
- WRENN ID
- plain-balcony-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Camden
- Constituency
- Hampstead and Highgate MP: Tulip Siddiq (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1974
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- Number 20 and Attached Garden Wall, Railings, Gate Piers and Gate, Downshire Hill, NW3 1NT
- OS grid reference
- TQ 269 857
- Coordinates
- 51.55636, -0.1697
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Number 20 is an early 19th-century terraced house of stucco construction. It has two storeys and three windows. A central, 20th-century projecting portico features pilasters supporting a modillion cornice, and contains a panelled door. The windows are recessed sash windows; the first floor has good cast-iron balconies, and the second floor has louvred shutters. There is a parapet to the roof. A tall brick chimney stack leans diagonally and is attached to the wall of the adjacent Number 21. Fire insurance plaques are located on either side of the first-floor central window. The interior of the property was not inspected.
Attached to the property is a low brick garden wall with cast-iron railings topped with urn finials. The gate piers have ball finials, and there is a gate.
Local climate
Number 20 and Attached Garden Wall, 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 — 1 transaction since 2010
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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