Number 26 and Attached Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Islington local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 October 1993. House, workshop. 4 related planning applications.
Number 26 and Attached Railings
- WRENN ID
- last-hearth-jackdaw
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Islington
- Constituency
- Islington South and Finsbury MP: Emily Thornberry (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 October 1993
- Type
- House, workshop
- Address
- Number 26 and Attached Railings, Cross Street, N1 2BG
- OS grid reference
- TQ 318 839
- Coordinates
- 51.53914, -0.10035
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a house, later used as a workshop, built before 1735. It is constructed of yellow brick with a slate mansard roof and brick stacks at the ends. The building follows a side-hall plan, and has three storeys, a basement, and an attic. The front facade has a three-window arrangement, with gauged brickwork on the first floor. The ground floor features a front door to the left, with an overlight, and a 20th-century workshop frontage to the right. There are two flat-topped dormers with sash windows in the roof.
The interior includes a mid-18th century staircase, extended in the 19th century to reach the attic. The staircase has two column-on-urn balusters per tread, with carved console ends. The hall and ground-floor principal rooms have modillion cornices and panelling. The first-floor rear room has a coved cornice. Attached cast-iron railings are present to the area.
Local climate
Number 26 and Attached Railings 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1996
- 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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