School of Audio Engineering is a Grade II listed building in the Islington local planning authority area, England. Church, recording studio, flats. 5 related planning applications.
School of Audio Engineering
- WRENN ID
- turning-chamber-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Islington
- Constituency
- Islington South and Finsbury MP: Emily Thornberry (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Church, recording studio, flats
- Address
- School of Audio Engineering, Chilllingworth Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 310 851
- Coordinates
- 51.55042, -0.11149
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The School of Audio Engineering, formerly St James's Church, is a building located on Chillingworth Road in Islington. It was constructed between 1837 and 1838 by architects H.W. Inwood and E.N. Clifton, with an extension added in 1839 and a tower completed in 1850. The building is made of grey brick, which is now painted, along with stone and stucco, and features a roof of artificial slate.
The original facade includes an off-centre hexastyle portico supported by stuccoed Ionic columns, with a plain entablature and a pediment. To the left of the portico is a tower that has a flat-arched entrance at the base, featuring an eared architrave and a cornice on consoles. A cornice extends across the tower from the portico, above which is a circular window, now without dressings, flanked by piers. The tower's open stage is square in plan and has paired Ionic antae at the corners, an entablature, a coped parapet, and antefixae. To the right of the portico is an altered answering bay on the ground floor, which has a round-arched window above it, along with a cornice and a circular window. The attic storeys are stepped back and are part of the new building.
Local climate
School of Audio Engineering 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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