16, St John Street is a Grade II listed building in the Islington local planning authority area, England. Industrial or commercial building. 3 related planning applications.
16, St John Street
- WRENN ID
- sunken-threshold-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Islington
- Constituency
- Islington South and Finsbury MP: Emily Thornberry (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Industrial or commercial building
- Address
- 16, St John Street, EC1M 4AY
- OS grid reference
- TQ 318 818
- Coordinates
- 51.52022, -0.10155
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 16 St John Street is an industrial or commercial building from the late 19th century. It is constructed of brick, now painted, set in Flemish bond with stucco dressings, and features a roof obscured by a parapet. The building stands four storeys over a basement and has a five-window range. The ground floor consists of four bays that have been altered, including a slightly wider works entry on the right, with a fascia and cornice above.
The upper windows are all flat-arched and have moulded stucco architraves. The first-floor windows feature architraves designed to appear as if they cross above the upper sash, although they do not. There is an overlight flanked by scrolled consoles that support a cornice, and a monogrammed cartouche is positioned above the central window. A moulded stucco storey band with paired consoles at either end runs along the building.
The second and third floors each have three windows with moulded stucco architraves. The second-floor windows are adorned with swags to the inswept frieze and cornice. Ionic pilasters flank the second and third floors, supporting brackets on either side of a plain frieze and cornice. The parapet features a central ornate pedimented panel with crossed keys in low relief, and there are urns on pedestals at either end.
Local climate
16, St John Street 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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