Numbers 23-61 (Odd) and Attached Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Islington local planning authority area, England. House. 54 related planning applications.

Numbers 23-61 (Odd) and Attached Railings

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Islington
Constituency
Islington North MP: Jeremy Corbyn (YP)
Country
England
Type
House
Address
Numbers 23-61 (Odd) and Attached Railings, Highbury Park
OS grid reference
TQ 319 857
Coordinates
51.55554, -0.09849
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Numbers 23-61 (odd) and attached railings are a terrace of houses dating from approximately 1825-30. They are constructed of yellow brick in a Flemish bond, with stucco detailing. The houses are four storeys high with a basement, and each has three windows, except for numbers 25-41, which have a two-window arrangement. Numbers 23-29, 41-49, and 57-61 project by one brick’s thickness. The basement and ground floor are stuccoed, the ground floor featuring banded rustication. Steps lead up to elliptical-arched entrances, each with Greek Doric columns supporting a coved cornice enriched with anthemion ornament. Each entrance has a fanlight with varying degrees of decorative glazing and a panelled door of original design. Number 23 has an entrance within a recessed full-height bay, with a prostyle Greek Doric porch and a replacement entablature. Number 25 lacks columns to the doorcase; number 37 has an altered fanlight and door; number 41 lacks decorative glazing to its fanlight; number 55 has a prostyle Greek Doric porch with a replacement entablature and sidelights to the doorcase; and number 61 has an enclosed single-storey porch within a recessed full-height bay to the right, incorporating Greek Doric engaged columns, an entablature, an overlight, and panelled doors of original design. Segmental-arched windows are visible above the bay at number 61. The ground-floor windows are elliptical-arched, while the upper windows have flat arches with gauged brick heads. The first-floor windows, representing the piano nobile, possess elaborate iron balconies, except for numbers 37 and 41-49. A moulded stucco entablature runs above the second floor, decorated with a palmette frieze on numbers 41 and 49. The mouldings are missing on numbers 25 and 53, and are interrupted on numbers 55 and 61. An attic storey is topped by a parapet, with a moulded stucco band in places. Stacks are located on the party walls. Cast-iron railings are present to the area.

Local climate

Numbers 23-61 (Odd) 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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