52, St John's Square is a Grade II listed building in the Islington local planning authority area, England. A 18th century Terraced house. 2 related planning applications.
52, St John's Square
- WRENN ID
- tired-newel-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Islington
- Constituency
- Islington South and Finsbury MP: Emily Thornberry (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Terraced house
- Period
- 18th century
- Address
- 52, St John's Square, EC1V 4JL
- OS grid reference
- TQ 316 821
- Coordinates
- 51.52302, -0.10406
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 52 St John's Square is a terraced house, now used as offices, built between 1806 and 1807. It features yellow brick set in Flemish bond and has a slate roof. The building stands four storeys high, with a two-window range on the right side and a one-window range on the left.
The ground floor has a wooden frontage with two entrances on either side of a cantilevered bay window that has curved corners. The entrances are adorned with cornices, overlights featuring decorative glazing, and original panelled doors at the outer entrances. These are flanked by pilasters that support a fascia and dentil cornice, which projects around the bay.
The left-hand side of the house has single tripartite windows on both floors, topped with segmental arches. The right-hand side features flat-arched windows with gauged brick heads and original 8/8 sash windows on both floors. The building has a parapet, round-arched dormers, and a mansard roof with stacks located on the party wall.
Local climate
52, St John's Square 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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