75 and 75a, Upper Street is a Grade II listed building in the Islington local planning authority area, England. Terraced house, cinema. 9 related planning applications.

75 and 75a, Upper Street

WRENN ID
frozen-nave-grove
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Islington
Constituency
Islington South and Finsbury MP: Emily Thornberry (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Terraced house, cinema
Address
75 and 75a, Upper Street, N1 0NU
OS grid reference
TQ 316 836
Coordinates
51.53639, -0.10376
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Nos. 75 and 75A on Upper Street is a terraced house and entrance wing to the former Electric Theatre cinema. The original house dates from the mid-18th century, while the cinema was built between 1908 and 1909. The building is constructed of brick, likely rendered with stucco or painted, and features a roof made of clay tiles. It stands three storeys tall with a dormer and has a four-window range.

The front wing is notable for its squat columns that support a large elliptical arch facing Upper Street, as well as a pair of round arches with keystones that open onto St Alban's Place. The parapet is adorned with a balustrade and a hemispherical dome, which was once topped by a female figure holding a large socket for an electric light globe that is now missing. The original house is set back from the street and includes a flat-arched passage leading to St Alban's Place on the south side. The first and second floors feature flat-arched windows with moulded stucco architraves and storey bands between the floors, along with a parapet. The hipped roof has one dormer.

The cinema was opened by Electric Theatres (1908) Ltd, the first company to create a chain of cinemas in London, making the entrance wing the earliest surviving part of a cinema in the city.

Local climate

75 and 75a, Upper 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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