Numbers 18-31 (Consecutive) and Attached Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Islington local planning authority area, England. A Early C19 Terrace of houses. 23 related planning applications.
Numbers 18-31 (Consecutive) and Attached Railings
- WRENN ID
- quartered-vestry-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Islington
- Constituency
- Islington South and Finsbury MP: Emily Thornberry (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Terrace of houses
- Address
- Numbers 18-31 (Consecutive) and Attached Railings, Claremont Square, N1 9LX
- OS grid reference
- TQ 312 830
- Coordinates
- 51.53076, -0.10984
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A terrace of fourteen houses on the south side of Claremont Square, built between 1821 and 1828. The terrace was designed by William Chadwell Mylne, who was Surveyor to the New River Estate. Around 1970, the houses were restored by Andrews Sherlock, architects. Number 31 was completely dismantled and refaced in 1979.
The houses are constructed of beige and gold stock brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with banded stucco ground floors. The roofs are hidden behind a parapet, and the party walls are brick. The design follows a side-hall entrance plan with a staircase. Each house has four storeys and a basement, with two windows each. The central block, comprising numbers 23 to 26, slightly projects from the main facade.
Steps lead to the entrances on the left side, where doorways feature fluted quarter-column jambs supporting corniced heads. The original six-panelled door has been replaced at number 31, while elliptical-arched fanlights (with patterned glass) are found above the doors at numbers 18 to 23 and 25 to 31. Windows on the ground floor are mainly of the 2/2, 6/6, or 8/8 sash type, with arched brick surrounds. The first floor has a stucco sill band and houses 6/6 full-length sash windows set in arched recesses, linked by stucco impost bands. Coupled iron-bracketed balconies with iron railings in a Vitruvian scroll and anthemion pattern are present. The second floor windows are 6/6 sashes, while the third floor windows are primarily 3/6 (with number 21 having 6/6 and number 22 having 3/3).
The houses have plain parapets, with stone coping at numbers 20 to 22 and 31, and a stucco parapet at numbers 23 to 30. There has been some rebuilding and patching-in on the upper storeys. Attached iron area railings feature knob and disc finials.
Local climate
Numbers 18-31 (Consecutive) 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 — 16 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 23 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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