Christchurch Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the Islington local planning authority area, England. Vicarage.

Christchurch Vicarage

WRENN ID
fallow-bracket-weasel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Islington
Constituency
Islington North MP: Jeremy Corbyn (YP)
Country
England
Type
Vicarage
Address
Christchurch Vicarage, 157, Highbury Grove, N5 1SA
OS grid reference
TQ 319 854
Coordinates
51.55223, -0.09858
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Christchurch Vicarage is a detached house built between 1875 and 1876. It is constructed from dressed Kentish ragstone with Bath stone dressings and has a roof made of Welsh slate. The building features three storeys above a basement, with an irregular arrangement of windows. The front facing Highbury Grove appears as two wings; one wing has three storeys while the other, set slightly back, has two storeys, both topped with hipped roofs. There is also a gabled wing to the west.

A shallow gabled porch is located on the right-hand wing, featuring a pointed-arched entrance that is deeply recessed, complete with a panelled door and overlight. The left-hand wing has a single-storey bay window with a flat-arched window containing four lights, which have chamfered mullions and transoms. Most of the upper windows include mullions with chamfer stops. The right-hand wing has a full dormer, while the west wing is entirely blank on the north side, featuring a coped gable and a corniced stack at the apex.

Local climate

Christchurch Vicarage 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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