Numbers 126-152 (Even) and Attached Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Islington local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 January 1994. Villas. 44 related planning applications.
Numbers 126-152 (Even) and Attached Railings
- WRENN ID
- high-forge-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Islington
- Constituency
- Islington South and Finsbury MP: Emily Thornberry (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 January 1994
- Type
- Villas
- Address
- Numbers 126-152 (Even) and Attached Railings, Hemingford Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 309 842
- Coordinates
- 51.54193, -0.1132
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Numbers 126-152 (even) and attached railings are a group of seven pairs of semi-detached villas, likely built around 1850. They are constructed of brown and yellow stock brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with stucco on the ground floors and dressings. The roofs are hipped, covered in tile, artificial slate, and Welsh slate, with projecting eaves and brick centre stacks. The design follows a side-hall entrance plan.
Each pair of villas is three storeys high with an attic, featuring two windows per front, plus deeply-recessed, linked entrance bays on the ground floor which provide access. The ground floor has round-arched openings, most with architraves, leading to panelled doorways (replacement doors are present in all but numbers 126 and 134). Fanlights are above the doors, although that at number 152 has been altered. A stucco cornice tops all of the doorways. Numbers 128, 136, 138, 140, 142, 146, and 150 retain their original balustrades over the entrance bays; the others have various 20th-century additions to the upper floors.
The ground floor windows are 6/6 sashes with curved and radial glazing bars and architraves, linked by impost bands, and feature cast-iron window guards. The upper brick floors have stucco quoins, architraves, and a first-floor sill band. The first floor has full-length 6/6 sashes with console-bracketed cornices and iron balcony railings (the railings at number 150 are missing). The second floor also has 6/6 sashes. Windows at numbers 138, 142 and 152 have been replaced with 20th-century sashes. Number 146 is the most original of the terrace, retaining all original architraves and the balustrade above the entrance. Attached railings are also present.
Local climate
Numbers 126-152 (Even) and Attached Railings 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.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 44 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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