67-77, Charterhouse Street EC1 is a Grade II listed building in the Islington local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 July 1998. Market building. 1 related planning application.
67-77, Charterhouse Street EC1
- WRENN ID
- tangled-marble-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Islington
- Constituency
- Islington South and Finsbury MP: Emily Thornberry (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 July 1998
- Type
- Market building
- Address
- 67-77, Charterhouse Street EC1, EC1M 6HJ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 317 817
- Coordinates
- 51.51953, -0.10276
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 67-77 on Charterhouse Street is a market building constructed in 1872, originally serving as a meat market with six shops at ground level until the meat traders relocated to the nearby Smithfield Market in 1877. The building is designed in the Ruskinian Venetian Gothic style, although the architect is not known. It is built from red brick, featuring some polychrome brick and Portland stone dressings. At the time of the survey, the hipped slate roof was missing.
The structure consists of three storeys and a basement, with six windows. While the cornice was missing during the survey, a dogtooth band with lion's head masks was still visible. Above the central second-floor windows, there are three high relief masks in roundels. The upper two storeys are defined by their windows, which are connected architecturally across both floors by arcading with round-headed arches, polychrome decoration, and two-storey brick pilasters that include stone-carved iron post blocks and bases. The outer windows feature central half-columns and floral roundels, while the four central windows are tripartite with identical half-columns. The upper windows have Venetian heads with four glazed roundels and a central floral roundel. The first-floor windows have flat arches and are sash windows with horns.
The ground floor retains its original fascia with a cornice and roundels, along with chamfered pilasters that discreetly reference the meat trade for which the building was designed. The shopfronts are from the early 20th century. The rear elevation is simpler, featuring paired sashes on the ground and first floors and metal casements on the second floor. Inside, the building retains original metal columns and wooden floor joists.
Local climate
67-77, Charterhouse Street EC1 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 95% 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 2 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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