Bacon Smokehouse is a Grade II listed building in the Islington local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 2014. Smokehouse. 4 related planning applications.

Bacon Smokehouse

WRENN ID
long-transept-barley
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Islington
Constituency
Islington South and Finsbury MP: Emily Thornberry (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 July 2014
Type
Smokehouse
Address
Bacon Smokehouse, 44-46 St. John Street, London, EC1M 4DF
OS grid reference
TQ 318 819
Coordinates
51.52112, -0.10098
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Bacon Smokehouse, built in 1877 by Charles Bell for ER Parker, a provisions merchant, is a rectangular building constructed of yellow stock brick with a slate roof and a brick chimney stack. It occupies the north-eastern side of a courtyard behind 44-46 St. John Street. The building is two stories high and enclosed on three sides by adjacent structures. The ground floor has four sets of double doors. An iron walkway provides access to the first floor, where there are porthole windows fitted with sliding circular iron smoke-dampening shutters, and floor-level windows with iron shutters. The pitched slate roof is topped with louvred ventilation cupolas. The interior has not been inspected, and the building was converted to offices in the late 20th century.

Local climate

Bacon Smokehouse 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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  • Sale history — 13 transactions since 1995
  • Related listed building consents — 4 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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