Clothworkers Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the Islington local planning authority area, England. Almshouses. 7 related planning applications.
Clothworkers Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- cold-mantel-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Islington
- Constituency
- Islington South and Finsbury MP: Emily Thornberry (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Almshouses
- Address
- Clothworkers Almshouses, 1-8, Bishop Street, N1 8PH
- OS grid reference
- TQ 321 837
- Coordinates
- 51.53755, -0.09547
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Clothworkers Almshouses are a group of almshouses built around 1855, designed in a Jacobean style. They are constructed from yellow brick set in Flemish bond, with stucco detailing and roofs made of Welsh slate. The building consists of eight houses arranged in two blocks at right angles to each other, although they are now connected by new buildings and a screen wall between numbers 4 and 5. The entrances have been relocated to the rear, resulting in alterations to the main facades.
Numbers 1, 3, 4, 5, and 8 feature single-storey former porches with round-arched entrances that have been converted into windows, flanked by pilasters and topped with an entablature. In front of numbers 2, 6, and 7 are single-storey square bays with paired windows, pilasters, and entablature, which were likely former porches. Number 8 has a round-arched former entrance within the main gabled wing, supported by pilasters and an entablature.
On the first floor, there are flat-arched, two-light mullioned windows with stucco architraves, moulded cills, cyma recta cornices, and relieving arches, featuring 4/4 sashes that retain their original design. The buildings have gabled roofs and side stacks, and stucco panels displaying the Clothworkers' arms are located in the gables of numbers 2 and 6.
Local climate
Clothworkers Almshouses 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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