Numbers 40-62 (Even) and Attached Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Islington local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 May 1973. Terraced houses. 14 related planning applications.
Numbers 40-62 (Even) and Attached Railings
- WRENN ID
- broken-joist-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Islington
- Constituency
- Islington South and Finsbury MP: Emily Thornberry (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 May 1973
- Type
- Terraced houses
- Address
- Numbers 40-62 (Even) and Attached Railings, Barnsbury Road, N1 0HD
- OS grid reference
- TQ 311 835
- Coordinates
- 51.53545, -0.1109
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Numbers 40-62 (even) and attached railings consist of a terrace of twelve houses, likely dating from around 1817 to 1822 and built by James Goulden. The houses are constructed of yellow and brown stock brick with banded stucco to the ground floor, topped by Welsh slate mansard roofs and brick party-wall stacks. They follow a side-hall entrance plan with a staircase.
The houses are three storeys high, with a basement and attic dormers, each having two windows. Ground-floor openings are segmental and arched. Low steps lead to the entrances (numbers 42-50 on the right and numbers 52-60 on the left). The doorways feature fluted quarter-column jambs supporting a corniced head, with original three-panelled doors. Fanlights are present above the doors at numbers 44, 48, 54 and 58, featuring curved and radial glazing bars; the fanlights at numbers 40, 42, 46, 52, 54 and 60 are simpler in design. Windows are six-over-six sash windows throughout. Ground-floor windows have curved and radial glazing bars, while upper-floor windows are topped by gauged brick flat arches. The first floor windows have stucco sill bands and coupled iron-bracketed balconies, which are missing from numbers 40 and 44. The balconies feature cast-iron railings with a Vitruvian scroll and palmette pattern. The houses have plain parapets with stone coping. Attached cast-iron area railings have urn finials.
Local climate
Numbers 40-62 (Even) 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 15 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 14 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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