12a Charterhouse Square, and Walls and Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Islington local planning authority area, England. House. 4 related planning applications.
12a Charterhouse Square, and Walls and Railings
- WRENN ID
- sombre-pavement-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Islington
- Constituency
- Islington South and Finsbury MP: Emily Thornberry (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- 12a Charterhouse Square, and Walls and Railings, EC1M 6AX
- OS grid reference
- TQ 319 819
- Coordinates
- 51.52131, -0.09905
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 12A Charterhouse Square is a terraced house built in the late 18th century, with a bowed window added to Charterhouse Square in the mid-to-late 19th century. The building is constructed of yellow brick in Flemish bond, with stone details and a slate roof. It has four storeys above a basement, featuring one window facing Charterhouse Square and four windows facing Rutland Place.
Access to the house is via steps leading up to a round-arched entrance on Rutland Place, which is adorned with fluted quarter-columns, a cornice, and a fanlight with decorative glazing. The windows on Rutland Place are flat-arched with gauged brick heads, though several are blank. On the Charterhouse Square side, there is a segmental-bowed window at the basement, ground, and first floors, featuring triple windows with stone mullions and lintels, and curved 9/9 sashes. The building also has a dentil cornice and a blocking course with iron railings on the balcony. The second-floor windows are flat-arched, and there is a frieze of brick designed to resemble triglyphs, along with a parapet and dormers in the mansard roof, with chimney stacks on the north side and on the party wall to the west.
To the north of the house, there is a late 18th-century brick screen wall that includes two flat-arched entrances with pilasters, cornices, and fanlights, as well as two blank flat-arched windows. This wall also features a brick frieze that mimics triglyphs and a parapet. The screen wall in Rutland Place has a flat-arched entrance with pilasters, a cornice, and an overlight, along with two blank windows and a similar brick frieze. The property is complemented by cast-iron railings on the steps in Rutland Place, which have iron-twist balusters, and area railings in Charterhouse Square with spearhead finials.
Local climate
12a Charterhouse Square, and Walls and 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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