Number 1-20 (Consecutive) and Attached Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Islington local planning authority area, England. Terraced houses. 24 related planning applications.

Number 1-20 (Consecutive) and Attached Railings

WRENN ID
low-pinnacle-cobweb
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Islington
Constituency
Islington South and Finsbury MP: Emily Thornberry (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Terraced houses
Address
Number 1-20 (Consecutive) and Attached Railings, Burgh Street, N1 8HF
OS grid reference
TQ 320 833
Coordinates
51.53361, -0.09822
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Number 1-20 (Consecutive) and attached railings are a row of terraced houses built around 1847. They are constructed from yellow and brown brick arranged in Flemish bond, with stucco elements and roofs made of Welsh and artificial slate where visible. The houses are two and three storeys high, each featuring two windows. The basement and ground floor are stuccoed, with the ground floor displaying banded rustication.

Number 10 stands out from the rest of the terrace, featuring a flat-arched entrance with fluted quarter-columns, a moulded cornice, and an overlight. Its ground-floor window is flat-arched, and there is a sill band for the first-floor windows, which are flat-arched with gauged brick heads set within a recessed round-arched panel, also with gauged brick heads and springing bands. Balconies with window guards are present, and there is a sill band for the second-floor windows, which are round-arched with gauged brick heads. All windows have 19th-century design sashes.

The rest of the terrace has round-arched entrances with pilaster jambs, cornices, fanlights, and original panelled doors for numbers 1-9, 12, 15, and 18-20. The ground-floor windows are round-arched, and the first-floor sill band terminates in stucco. Upper windows are flat-arched with gauged brick heads, except for numbers 18 and 19. Numbers 5-9 and 11-16 have a third storey with flat-arched windows with gauged brick heads, while numbers 1-4 feature mansard roofs with dormers, and numbers 17-20 lack a third storey. The sashes are of original design, including radiating glazing bars for several ground-floor windows. The cornice has been much reworked and is missing on number 8, and there are stacks on the party walls. The steps and area are adorned with cast-iron railings.

Local climate

Number 1-20 (Consecutive) 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 1996
  • Related listed building consents — 24 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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