The Sycamores is a Grade II* listed building in the Haringey local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1951. House. 4 related planning applications.
The Sycamores
- WRENN ID
- pitched-footing-storm
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Haringey
- Constituency
- Hampstead and Highgate MP: Tulip Siddiq (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Sycamores, 17-21, North Road N6
- OS grid reference
- TQ 282 875
- Coordinates
- 51.57232, -0.1503
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Sycamores is a group of three early 18th century houses located on North Road in Highgate. Nos 17 and 19 are built of brown brick with red brick dressings and feature tiled roofs. Each of these two houses has two storeys and an attic, with three windows each. They have small central gables with attic windows and segment-headed sash windows with glazing bars in exposed box frames. Some windows in No 19 are blocked. Both houses have six-panel doors with the top panels glazed. Notably, No 17 has a blue plaque from the Greater London Council commemorating the residence of A.E. Housman, during which he wrote "A Shropshire Lad."
No 21, also an early 18th century house, is constructed of brown brick with red brick dressings and has two storeys and an attic, featuring five windows. It has a slightly projecting two-storey addition with one window to the north. The house has a high-pitched tiled roof with three segment-headed dormers and a stone-coped parapet. The segment-headed sash windows have glazing bars in exposed moulded frames. The door is made up of eight fielded panels with the top panel glazed, set in rusticated jambs. The Doric doorcase features fluted pilasters, a triglyph frieze, and a modillioned cornice with a segmental pediment.
Nos 11A, 13, 15, 17, 19, and 21, along with No 23, form a cohesive architectural group.
Local climate
The Sycamores 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1997
- 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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