1-3, Helmet Row is a Grade II listed building in the Islington local planning authority area, England. Terraced houses. 6 related planning applications.
1-3, Helmet Row
- WRENN ID
- floating-buttress-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Islington
- Constituency
- Islington South and Finsbury MP: Emily Thornberry (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Terraced houses
- Address
- 1-3, Helmet Row, EC1V 3QJ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 322 823
- Coordinates
- 51.52489, -0.09439
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
These are a group of three terraced houses dating from the early 19th century, located in Islington. They are built of yellow brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with red brick detailing and a slate roof. Each house has three or four storeys over a basement, with two windows facing the street.
Number 1 has pilasters supporting a fascia and cornice. It features a carriage entrance to the left, a house entrance with decorative glazing above the door, and a flat-arched window with a gauged brick head on the right. The upper windows have flat arches with gauged brick heads, and the second floor has original 6/6 sash windows. A dormer is incorporated into the mansard roof, and there is a parapet above.
Number 2 has similar pilasters and a fascia and cornice, but includes a 20th-century service entrance, and a house entrance below. The upper windows have cambered arches, and the building has a parapet.
Number 3 has a flat-arched entrance with a decorative overlight on the right, and a round-arched window on the ground floor, both with heads of gauged red brick. The upper windows have flat arches with heads of gauged red brick. It also contains 6/6 sash windows with original design, with radiating glazing bars to the ground floor window, and a parapet.
Local climate
1-3, Helmet Row 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 2002
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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