Number 20 and Attached Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Islington local planning authority area, England. House.
Number 20 and Attached Railings
- WRENN ID
- north-gallery-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Islington
- Constituency
- Islington North MP: Jeremy Corbyn (YP)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Number 20 and Attached Railings, Hornsey Lane
- OS grid reference
- TQ 290 872
- Coordinates
- 51.56977, -0.13971
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Number 20 is a single house that is now part of a terrace, dating from the early to mid-17th century, with alterations made in the 18th and 19th centuries. The exterior is roughcast with a roof covered in slates, which has largely been altered. The building stands three storeys high over a basement and features a three-window range with a double-fronted design.
The entrance is located in a central, two-storey porch, which has a flat-arched chamfered entrance and a moulded architrave surrounding the flat-arched doorcase. Above the porch, there is a storey band with a flat-arched, mullioned and transomed window that is set under a hoodmould, and a modillion cornice. The ground-floor windows are flat-arched with flush frames and feature waterleaf and beaded ornament on the outer mouldings; they are 6/6 sashes. Above these, there are canted oriels that have a modillion cornice and flat-arched windows with 6/6 sashes of original design. The twin gables have small casement windows with cornices and decorative bargeboards.
The area railings, dating from the late 19th century, feature panels of scrolling ornament. The interior has not been inspected recently, but a description from 1972 mentions that it has an interesting interior.
Local climate
Number 20 and Attached Railings sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 — 1 transaction since 2026
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