187-191, St John Street is a Grade II listed building in the Islington local planning authority area, England. Former distillery, offices. 2 related planning applications.
187-191, St John Street
- WRENN ID
- upper-railing-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Islington
- Constituency
- Islington South and Finsbury MP: Emily Thornberry (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Former distillery, offices
- OS grid reference
- TQ 316 822
- Coordinates
- 51.52425, -0.10335
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 187-191 on St John Street are former distillery buildings that have been converted into offices. They date from the late 19th century, with the ground floor dating to around 1900. The ground floor is constructed of granite ashlar, while the upper floors are made of yellow and white brick with stone dressings. The building is three storeys high over a basement and features a four-window range. The ground floor consists of four bays, with a segmental passage arch to the left and other basement and ground-floor windows that are segmental-arched but now blank. There is a storey band and a simple cornice.
The upper floors display a giant order of pilasters that support an entablature, which projects forward over them. The first-floor windows are flat-arched with stone lintels, while the second-floor windows are segmental-arched with gauged brick heads. These windows are set back in a segmental-arched panel that is edged with white brick and features stone keystones. The building is topped with a parapet that has stone coping.
Local climate
187-191, 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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