88 and 90, Richmond Avenue is a Grade II listed building in the Islington local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 December 1975. Villa. 4 related planning applications.
88 and 90, Richmond Avenue
- WRENN ID
- calm-floor-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Islington
- Constituency
- Islington South and Finsbury MP: Emily Thornberry (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 December 1975
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- 88 and 90, Richmond Avenue, N1 0NA
- OS grid reference
- TQ 311 838
- Coordinates
- 51.53858, -0.11081
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
88 and 90 Richmond Avenue is a single villa with a later shopfront at number 88 and a one-storey extension to the left, which also has a simpler shopfront at number 90. Both buildings are now used for domestic purposes. They were constructed around 1840, with late 19th-century shopfronts added later. The villa is made of beige stock bricks arranged in Flemish bond, with stucco ground floors. It features a hipped roof covered in Welsh slate, while the extension's roof is hidden by a parapet. The villa has brick end stacks.
Number 88 is two storeys high and has a three-window range. The first floor has gauged brick flat arches with 6/6 sash windows. The ground-floor shopfront consists of four unequal architraved bays, supported by linked stucco piers with moulded capitals. There is a round-arched entrance in the far right bay, which has a 20th-century panelled door with a plain two-light fanlight above. To the left, there are three shop windows; the original round-arched centre door was replaced with a plain glazed window around 1980, and there are flanking tripartite 6-light fixed windows with flattened arches of unequal width and plain recessed panels below. A dentilled stucco cornice runs at the level of the shopfront.
Number 90 is one storey high with a two-window range. It has a 20th-century door in the right bay and a simple tripartite shop window to the left. The building features a moulded stucco cornice and parapet. Each building has one attached curved iron gas lamp arm.
Local climate
88 and 90, Richmond Avenue 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2008
- 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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