1 and 3, Crouch Hill is a Grade II listed building in the Islington local planning authority area, England. Dairy and shop. 11 related planning applications.
1 and 3, Crouch Hill
- WRENN ID
- second-wattle-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Islington
- Constituency
- Islington North MP: Jeremy Corbyn (YP)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Dairy and shop
- OS grid reference
- TQ 306 874
- Coordinates
- 51.57059, -0.11577
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
1 and 3 Crouch Hill is a dairy and shop building, dating from around 1895. It features brown glazed brick, red rubbed brick with stone dressings, and sgraffito, with roofs hidden by a parapet. The single-storey dairy front has a base of brown glazed brick and an elliptical-arched carriage entrance with stone foliage imposts and an archivolt that reverts to rubbed brick in the middle section. To the left of the entrance are five bays, and to the right are two bays, each with round-arched panels that have stone foliage imposts and archivolts with roll-mouldings, flanked by Corinthian pilasters. The panels are filled with scenes in sgraffito that depict dairy processes, including grazing, milking, cooling, country delivery, making butter, old-style delivery, and present-day delivery. Above these scenes is a frieze of swags interspersed with heads in cartouches. The scrolled parapet is interrupted over the third bay from the left by a panel with incised lettering that reads 'ESTABLISHED A0 1836 DI', and above the entrance is a panel inscribed 'FRIERN MANOR DAIRY FARM LIMITED', topped by a stone panel with consoles depicting a mythological and dairy scene. There are also two octagonal cupolas with louvred lantern stages, lead-covered ogee roofs, and iron sunflower finials behind the parapet. Number 3 has a 20th-century shop front flanked by pilasters, with possible remnants of the original shop front behind the modern fascia. It features a cornice with festooned brackets and a parapet of composition stone with a cartouche in the central brick panel. The sgraffito panels are notable for being pictorial and located on a street, as there is not much late 19th-century sgraffito work, and what exists is typically decorative or found in churches.
Local climate
1 and 3, Crouch Hill sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 — 6 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 11 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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