55, Britton Street is a Grade II listed building in the Islington local planning authority area, England. Terraced house, shop.
55, Britton Street
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Islington
- Constituency
- Islington South and Finsbury MP: Emily Thornberry (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Terraced house, shop
- OS grid reference
- TQ 316 820
- Coordinates
- 51.52178, -0.10402
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 55 Britton Street is a terraced house with a shop, built around 1825. It features multicoloured brick set in Flemish bond, with some rebuilding in yellow brick on the second floor, and a roof made of Welsh slate. The building has four storeys and a two-window range.
The ground floor includes a round-arched entrance to St John's Path on the left, and the rest of the front is dominated by a well-preserved early 19th-century wooden shop front. This shop front has engaged Roman Doric columns that support an entablature with a fascia, end scrolls, and a cornice. There is a central entrance with a decoratively glazed overlight, and small-paned shop windows with curved corners.
On the first floor, the windows are flat-arched with gauged brick heads and are recessed in round-arched panels that also have gauged brick heads, linked by stone springing bands. The upper windows are flat-arched with 6/6 sashes of original design. The building has a parapet, two dormers in the mansard roof, and a stack on the party wall.
Local climate
55, Britton 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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