Numbers 21 and 23 and Attached Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Islington local planning authority area, England. House. 2 related planning applications.
Numbers 21 and 23 and Attached Railings
- WRENN ID
- muffled-paling-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Islington
- Constituency
- Islington South and Finsbury MP: Emily Thornberry (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Numbers 21 and 23 and Attached Railings, Yardley Street, WC1X 0EX
- OS grid reference
- TQ 311 825
- Coordinates
- 51.5267, -0.11144
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Numbers 21 and 23 are a pair of terraced houses built around 1840, although they were altered or rebuilt in the 20th century. They are constructed from yellow stock brick laid in Flemish bond, featuring a banded stucco ground floor and stucco dressings. The roofs are obscured, and there are brick stacks at the center. The houses follow a side-hall entrance plan and are two storeys tall with a basement, each having two windows.
Low steps lead up to the entrance located in the outer bays, which features a doorway with fluted quarter columns, a corniced head, a rectangular overlight, and a panelled door. The windows are 6/6 sashes throughout. There is a stucco sill beneath the architraved first-floor full-length sashes, which have bracketed consoles supporting a cornice and cast-iron balconettes. A stucco cornice with a blocking course is present, and the altered roofline is extended by a stucco gable at the center, flanked by swept-up ends. Additionally, there are attached cast iron railings with urn finials.
Local climate
Numbers 21 and 23 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.
- No sale records on file
- 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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