Numbers 39-47, 49-56, 58 and 59 and Attached Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Islington local planning authority area, England. Terraced houses. 23 related planning applications.
Numbers 39-47, 49-56, 58 and 59 and Attached Railings
- WRENN ID
- western-rood-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Islington
- Constituency
- Islington South and Finsbury MP: Emily Thornberry (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Terraced houses
- Address
- Numbers 39-47, 49-56, 58 and 59 and Attached Railings, Compton Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 318 846
- Coordinates
- 51.54571, -0.10029
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Numbers 39-47, 49-56, 58, and 59 on Compton Road are a row of terraced houses built between 1847 and 1853, now with number 59 converted to offices. The development was undertaken by George Frasi and James Beaumont. The buildings are constructed of brick and stucco, with slate roofs, and rise three storeys over a basement. Each house typically features two windows, although some have been combined into single units with a shared porch.
The terrace is nearly symmetrical, consisting of three groups with an attic storey and six windows each (numbers 39-41, 49-50, and 58-59, though number 59 lacks an attic), flanked by two groups of twelve windows each. The windows are flat-arched on all but the attic storeys, which have round-arched windows. The half-basement and ground floor are finished in stucco, with the ground floor displaying a banded design.
Prominent features include Greek Doric prostyle porches with panelled doors and fanlights, and cast-iron balustrades on the sides. The first-floor windows are adorned with cornices on consoles and full-length cast-iron balconies, while the second-floor windows have architraves. Each three-storey house is capped with a cornice and blocking course, separated by stops on consoles, and the attic storeys have a secondary cornice with a blocking course.
The windows of numbers 39-47 mainly feature margin lights, while those of numbers 49-50 are a mix of margin lights and three-by-two sashes. Numbers 51-58 predominantly have three-by-two sashes. Number 39 has a two-storey entrance wing that is set back, with the ground floor stuccoed and pilasters flanking the entrance. Number 59 is three storeys over a half-basement, with a two-bay extension that returns into St Paul's Road, featuring channelled stucco on the ground floor and half-basement, a single-storey side entrance flanked by pilasters, and simple architraves on the first and second floors, with a string course between them. The area in front is enclosed by cast-iron railings set between squat stuccoed piers, topped with fleur-de-lys finials.
Local climate
Numbers 39-47, 49-56, 58 and 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
- Sale history — 8 transactions since 2002
- 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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