59 and Attached Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Islington local planning authority area, England. Terraced house. 15 related planning applications.
59 and Attached Railings
- WRENN ID
- unlit-beam-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Islington
- Constituency
- Islington South and Finsbury MP: Emily Thornberry (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Terraced house
- Address
- 59 and Attached Railings, Britton Street, EC1M 5UU
- OS grid reference
- TQ 316 820
- Coordinates
- 51.52197, -0.10424
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
59 and attached railings is a terraced house dating from the early 18th century. It features multicoloured brick with red brick dressings and a roof made of Welsh slate. The building has four storeys over a basement and a three-window range. The basement is rendered. The entrance, located in the right-hand bay, has a flat arch and is adorned with fluted pilasters, elaborately carved brackets, a panelled frieze, and a flat hood with a panelled soffit, cornice, and overlight. The ground and first-floor windows have flat arches made of gauged red brick and red brick dressings on the sides; the frames are set almost flush with the wall, with the first-floor windows being replacements. The ground floor features 6/6 sashes of the original design. A brick storey band runs along the building. The second-floor windows also have flat arches with replacement heads and red brick dressings; their frames are set almost flush with the wall, and they include 6/6 sashes of the original design. The parapet has been rebuilt, and there are two dormers in the mansard roof. The area railings are topped with urn and palmette finials.
Inside, the entrance hall is panelled and features a plaster cornice and fluted pilasters that lead to the staircase hall. The staircase has an open string from the ground floor, turned newels, and column-on-vase balusters extending to the third floor, with turned balusters above and much-altered panelling. The front and back rooms on the ground floor have been combined into one space; some panelling and a plaster cornice survive on the north wall, though altered. The back room has a corner fireplace with a late 18th century or early 19th century cast-iron grate, and there is a closet with panelling, a plaster cornice, and another corner fireplace with a late 18th century or early 19th century cast-iron grate. On the second floor, the front and back rooms retain panelling and a plaster cornice, with 19th-century alterations. The front room has a late 18th century or early 19th century cast-iron grate, while the back room features a corner fireplace and a panelled closet.
Local climate
59 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 15 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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