517-523, Liverpool Road is a Grade II listed building in the Islington local planning authority area, England. Terraced house. 2 related planning applications.
517-523, Liverpool Road
- WRENN ID
- sombre-floor-saffron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Islington
- Constituency
- Islington South and Finsbury MP: Emily Thornberry (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Terraced house
- Address
- 517-523, Liverpool Road, N7 8NS
- OS grid reference
- TQ 311 850
- Coordinates
- 51.54878, -0.1106
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 517-523 Liverpool Road are terraced houses dating from the mid-to-late 18th century for Nos. 517-521 and early 19th century for No. 523. They are constructed of brown and yellow brick, with roofs obscured by a parapet. The buildings rise three storeys over a basement; Nos. 517-519 and 523 have a two-window range, while No. 521 has a three-window range.
Nos. 517 and 519 feature entrances from a raised walk with a stuccoed ground floor, decorated on No. 519 with chamfered rustication. They have flat-arched entrances with pilasters that support an enriched frieze and pediment. No. 521 has steps leading up to a round-arched entrance, which includes a complete wooden doorcase with Roman Doric engaged columns supporting an entablature and an open pediment, featuring scrolled decoration in the spandrels and a keystone. It also has a fanlight and a panelled door of original design. No. 523 has steps up to a flat-arched entrance with plain stucco pilasters and a cornice on consoles, along with an overlight and a panelled door of original design.
The ground-floor windows are flat-arched for Nos. 517-521 and cambered for No. 523. The first-floor windows are flat-arched, with gauged red brick heads for Nos. 517-521. The second-floor windows are segmental-arched for No. 517 and flat-arched for Nos. 519-523, which have been rebuilt. The buildings have a parapet and stacks located at the party walls. Nos. 517 and 521 were listed on February 18, 1970.
Local climate
517-523, Liverpool Road 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 — 3 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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