56 and 57, Colebrooke Row is a Grade II listed building in the Islington local planning authority area, England. Terraced house. 1 related planning application.
56 and 57, Colebrooke Row
- WRENN ID
- mired-courtyard-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Islington
- Constituency
- Islington South and Finsbury MP: Emily Thornberry (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Terraced house
- Address
- 56 and 57, Colebrooke Row, N1 8AF
- OS grid reference
- TQ 317 835
- Coordinates
- 51.53559, -0.10122
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
These are two early 18th-century terraced houses of brown brick with red brick dressings and a clay-tiled roof. They are three storeys high, with a basement, and each has three windows. Each house has a flat-arched entrance in the inner bay, featuring simple architraves and coupled hoods supported by foliated scrolled brackets; panelled doors are set within these entrances. The ground and first floor windows are segmental-arched with red brick dressings, and contain 6/6 sash windows that are almost flush with the wall. A parapet tops the building, and there are dormers in the mansard roof – one to number 56, and two to number 57.
The interior of number 56 was not accessible at the time of listing. Inside number 57, the entrance hall has a panelled dado along the party wall with number 56 and unmoulded panelling on the opposite side. A wooden cornice is present, and this panelling arrangement continues up the staircase to the first floor. The dog-leg staircase features turned newels, turned balusters, and a moulded rail from the basement upwards, although the balusters on the final flight have been renewed. The downstairs room is fully panelled with moulded rails and muntins, an elaborate wooden cornice, though some replacement panelling is evident, likely due to the joining of two rooms. Both the front and corner fireplaces have been considerably renewed. The first-floor front room is also fully panelled with moulded rails and muntins and a wooden cornice. The mantelpiece, complete with an eared architrave and corniced shelf, was likely introduced later.
Local climate
56 and 57, Colebrooke Row 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 — 1 transaction since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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