Number 8 and Attached Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Islington local planning authority area, England. House.

Number 8 and Attached Railings

WRENN ID
former-bastion-spindle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Islington
Constituency
Islington North MP: Jeremy Corbyn (YP)
Country
England
Type
House
Address
Number 8 and Attached Railings, Hornsey Lane
OS grid reference
TQ 289 872
Coordinates
51.5692, -0.14118
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Number 8 is a mid-18th century terraced house located on Hornsey Lane. It is constructed of plum brick with red brick dressings and features a roof that is obscured by a parapet. The house has three storeys over a basement and a three-window range.

The entrance is flat-arched and includes a doorcase with panelled reveals, a cornice, a decorative fanlight, and a panelled door that retains its original design. There is a wooden prostyle porch adorned with palm-leaf capitals, vases, and arabesques on the frieze and dentil cornice. All the original windows have heads made of gauged red brick.

On the ground floor, there are two narrow windows flanking the porch and a single-storey 19th-century canted bay window. The first floor features two Palladian windows on either side with a narrow flat-arched window in between, which may indicate the original layout of two narrower houses combined into one. The second floor mirrors this arrangement with lunette windows and a narrow flat-arched window between, along with one flat-arched window that has been inserted.

To the right, there is a recessed unwindowed wing. The house has a parapet and side stacks. Additionally, there are railings with spearhead finials leading to the basement steps.

Local climate

Number 8 and Attached Railings 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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