Pensioners' Court and Stable Court, The Charterhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Islington local planning authority area, England. Almshouses. 1 related planning application.
Pensioners' Court and Stable Court, The Charterhouse
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-cobalt-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Islington
- Constituency
- Islington South and Finsbury MP: Emily Thornberry (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Almshouses
- Address
- Pensioners' Court and Stable Court, The Charterhouse, Charterhouse Square, EC1M 6AU
- OS grid reference
- TQ 318 820
- Coordinates
- 51.52194, -0.10077
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Charterhouse Pensioners' Court and Stable Court are almshouses built between 1826 and 1840 as part of Sutton’s Hospital. The designs are attributed to Edward Blore, with possible involvement from Pilkington, the Surveyor to the Charterhouse. Constructed of yellow brick in Flemish bond with stone dressings, the roofs are covered in Welsh slate.
The south range, originally fourteen windows wide, features a slightly projecting entrance bay of three windows, two windows to the west, and nine windows to the east. An original segmental-arched carriage entrance is present, and the ground floor originally comprised an open arcade of five-centred arches, now blocked. First-floor windows have flat arches with chamfered mullions, hoodmoulds, and are three-light over the carriage arch, with the remainder being two-light. A moulded storey band and embattled parapet are present, along with an octagonal embattled tower to the entrance bay and octagonal corniced chimney shafts. East and west wings of three storeys include an arcade of five-centered arches forming a cloister to the ground floor of the east wing. First and second floor windows are flat-arched with two lights under hoodmoulds.
The north range has a south range of nine windows and a central entrance. Originally, the west, north, and east ranges contained nine Tudor-arched entrances, with the south-east corner now a window. This design would have provided a double-fronted arrangement for each house, with flat-arched two-light windows under hoodmoulds on both floors. Broad Tudor-arched carriage entrances match those on the south range, while a narrow Tudor-arched passage entrance is located in the north range, all featuring panelled doors. Moulded eaves rafters are also present, along with stacks to the ridge with shafts grouped in fours, featuring chamfered brickwork, a brick cornice, and stone coping.
Stable Court, a two-storey section of four windows, is located to the north and west of the north range and is more simply detailed.
Local climate
Pensioners' Court and Stable Court, The Charterhouse 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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