80, St John Street is a Grade II listed building in the Islington local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 May 1975. Terraced house. 1 related planning application.

80, St John Street

WRENN ID
floating-wattle-rye
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Islington
Constituency
Islington South and Finsbury MP: Emily Thornberry (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 May 1975
Type
Terraced house
Address
80, St John Street, EC1M 4EH
OS grid reference
TQ 318 820
Coordinates
51.52184, -0.10153
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 80 St John Street is a terraced house, now used as offices, likely built in the early 1750s. The building features yellow brick set in Flemish bond, stucco, and a roof made of Welsh slate. It stands four storeys high with a two-window range. The ground floor is stuccoed with banded rustication, and the right-hand doorway appears to be a late 20th-century addition with a canopy as part of the cornice. All windows are flat-arched with gauged brick heads on the first, second, and third floors. There is a bracketed cornice above the second floor and a parapet above the third, along with two dormers in the mansard roof.

Inside, the first-floor front room has a fluted dado rail, and the door's architrave and inner panelling, as well as the window embrasures and shutters, are adorned with horizontal fluting. The room also features a frieze with palmette and urn motifs, along with a cornice. The ceiling, likely designed around 1790 in the Adam style, includes a central fan motif, festoons, arabesques, and modeled figures in oval medallions at the four compass points. The fireplace in this room is a late 20th-century replacement. The back room on the first floor has equally sized square panels and a modillion cornice with egg-and-dart ornamentation on the architrave. A round arch leads to the first-floor passage, which is flanked by double pilasters and features a panelled soffit with rosettes.

Local climate

80, St John Street 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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