Upper Street Islington

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from October 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

607 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 60 m². Most common: Flat (546); Maisonette, mid-terrace (27); House, mid-terrace (17). Built: 1900-1929 (123); 1930-1949 (90); before 1900 (77). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (204); rented (private) (164); rented (social) (152).

Council tax

What each band costs in Islington in 2026-27: Band D £2,108 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (22% of about 8,740 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the 8 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

• Conservation area: yes, Clerkenwell Green, New River, Charterhouse Square, Northampton Square (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
• Listed buildings on or by this street: 152.
• Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
• Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
• Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

• CLERK'S WELL AND CHAMBER/ENCLOSURE IN BASEMENT OF NUMBER 16, grade I
• PRIORY CHURCH OF ST JOHN OF JERUSALEM, grade I
• ST JOHN'S GATE, grade I
• CHURCH OF ST JAMES AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, grade II*
• Former Middlesex Sessions House, grade II*
• SADLER HOUSE AND ATTACHED PORTER'S LODGE, grade II*
• TUNBRIDGE HOUSE AND BOILER HOUSE, grade II*
• WELLS HOUSE, grade II*
• 1 AND 2, CHADWELL STREET, grade II
• 11 AND 12, WYNYATT STREET, grade II
• 11 AND 13, WOODBRIDGE STREET AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, grade II
• 11, JERUSALEM PASSAGE, grade II
• 12-14A, CLERKENWELL GREEN, grade II
• 12, JERUSALEM PASSAGE, grade II
• 14-16, COWCROSS STREET, grade II
• 148-154, ST JOHN STREET, grade II
• 16, ST JOHN STREET, grade II
• 18 AND 20, FARRINGDON LANE, grade II
• 18 AND 20, ST JOHN STREET, grade II
• 18 AND A HALF, SEKFORDE STREET, grade II
• 187-191, ST JOHN STREET, grade II
• 18A, 18-28, ARLINGTON WAY, grade II
• 19, TOMPION STREET, grade II
• 193, ST JOHN STREET, grade II
• 2, ALBEMARLE WAY, grade II
• 201, ST JOHN STREET, grade II
• 22 AND 23, SEKFORDE STREET, grade II
• 22 TO 25 NORTHAMPTON SQUARE, 11 SEBASTIAN STREET, AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, grade II
• 22, ST JOHN STREET, grade II
• 22a AND 24 ST JAMES'S WALK, grade II

And 122 more.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

• The Triangle Estate and 131-135 [odd] Goswell Road,Compton Street: up to 48 homes, permissioned (240 m)
• Clerkenwell Fire Station: up to 45 homes, not permissioned (450 m (0.3 miles))
• 13 St Cross Street London EC1N 8UB, permissioned (480 m (0.3 miles))
• 13 St Cross Street London EC1N 8UB: up to 8 homes, permissioned (480 m (0.3 miles))
• 18 Vine Hill and 15-29 Eyre Street Hill, London, EC1R 5DZ: up to 9 homes, permissioned (540 m (0.3 miles))
• 18-26 Hatton Wall London EC1N 8JH: up to 7 homes, permissioned (550 m (0.3 miles))
• 18-26 Hatton Wall London EC1N 8JH, permissioned (550 m (0.3 miles))
• Farringdon Point 29-35 Farringdon Road London EC1M 3JF, permissioned (580 m (0.4 miles))

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

Planned, as of 31 October 2026

• 3 November 2026 to 5 November 2026: HYPEROPTIC LTD, Utility asset works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
• 4 November 2026 to 6 November 2026: HYPEROPTIC LTD, Utility asset works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works, permit applied for)
• 13 February 2027 to 2 March 2027: CADENT GAS LIMITED, Utility asset works, two-way signals, on the footway, carriageway (major (paa) works)
• 15 February 2027 to 19 February 2027: UK POWER NETWORKS EASTERN & LONDON, Utility repair and maintenance works, multi-way signals, on the footway (standard works)
• 26 July 2027 to 3 September 2027: CADENT GAS LIMITED, Utility asset works, multi-way signals, on the footway, carriageway (major (paa) works)

Finished in the last three months

• 28 October 2026: BT, Utility asset works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
• 27 October 2026 to 28 October 2026: VODAFONE GROUP, New service connection, multi-way signals, on the carriageway (major works)
• 26 October 2026: THAMES WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
• 19 October 2026 to 23 October 2026: THAMES WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, priority working, on the footway, carriageway (immediate - urgent works)
• 13 October 2026 to 16 October 2026: CADENT GAS LIMITED, Disconnection or alteration of supply, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (standard works)
• 25 September 2026 to 26 September 2026: LONDON BOROUGH OF ISLINGTON, Highway repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
• 12 September 2026 to 15 September 2026: THAMES WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, lane closure, on the footway (immediate - urgent works)
• 2 September 2026 to 4 September 2026: LONDON BOROUGH OF ISLINGTON, Highway repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
• 17 August 2026 to 18 August 2026: THAMES WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, two-way signals, on the carriageway (immediate - urgent works)
• 17 August 2026 to 20 August 2026: UK POWER NETWORKS EASTERN & LONDON, Utility repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (standard works)
• 13 August 2026 to 14 August 2026: G Network Holdco Limited, New service connection, some carriageway incursion, on the footway, carriageway (minor works)
• 5 August 2026: BT, New service connection, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 108 addresses are in areas at high risk, 110 at medium risk and 133 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The street's 1,648 addresses are between 14 m and 33 m above sea level (21 m on average); the ground rises about 18 m from the lowest to the highest.

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 19 parks and gardens, 6.1 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Benedictine nunnery of St Mary, Clerkenwell, a scheduled monument, 190 m south-west. 575 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 19 of them Grade I and 31 of them Grade II*.

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

All three are within the UK legal limits; all three are above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road, rail and aircraft noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

1,518 of the street's 1,640 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Islington: see them on the Islington page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

Most of these are attached to: On or near Supermarket (74); On or near Cyrus Street (39); On or near Tompion Street (35); On or near Skinner Street (29); On or near B501 (27).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 20 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 5,259 residents in 2,432 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Homes

Work and commuting

Education and languages

Deprivation

The 8 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 2 to 8 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

• Roadworks Street works permit: HYPEROPTIC LTD: Utility asset works, 4 November 2026 to 6 November 2026 (no carriageway incursion) found 3 November 2026
• Roadworks Street works permit: HYPEROPTIC LTD: Utility asset works, 3 November 2026 to 5 November 2026 (some carriageway incursion) found 3 November 2026
• Roadworks Street works permit: VODAFONE GROUP: New service connection, 27 October 2026 to 29 October 2026 (multi-way signals) found 3 November 2026
• Roadworks Street works permit: THAMES WATER: Utility repair and maintenance works, 19 October 2026 to 23 October 2026 (priority working) found 3 November 2026
• Roadworks Street works permit: UK POWER NETWORKS EASTERN & LONDON: Utility repair and maintenance works, 15 February 2027 to 19 February 2027 (multi-way signals) found 3 November 2026

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

• EC1V 4AT: 161 addresses
• EC1V 4JY: 86 addresses
• EC1V 4LZ: 83 addresses
• EC1M 4DT: 82 addresses
• EC1V 4NT: 69 addresses
• EC1V 4LB: 68 addresses of 69 in the postcode
• EC1M 4AN: 67 addresses
• EC1V 0EL: 65 addresses
• EC1M 4AA: 63 addresses
• EC1M 4EH: 52 addresses of 53 in the postcode
• EC1R 4TT: 49 addresses
• EC1M 4AY: 48 addresses
• EC1V 4JS: 47 addresses of 48 in the postcode
• EC1V 4NJ: 44 addresses
• EC1V 4LY: 38 addresses
• EC1V 0EP: 36 addresses of 72 in the postcode
• EC1V 4LD: 34 addresses of 35 in the postcode
• EC1V 4QJ: 32 addresses
• EC1V 4PH: 31 addresses
• EC1V 0ER: 29 addresses of 75 in the postcode
• EC1V 4NN: 28 addresses
• EC1V 4NG: 27 addresses of 29 in the postcode
• EC1M 4AS: 25 addresses
• EC1V 0HP: 20 addresses of 39 in the postcode
• EC1V 4AB: 19 addresses
• EC1V 4JE: 19 addresses of 20 in the postcode
• EC1V 4NX: 19 addresses
• EC1V 4ND: 18 addresses
• EC1M 4DF: 17 addresses of 18 in the postcode
• EC1V 4JZ: 13 addresses
• EC1V 4LS: 13 addresses
• EC1V 4PA: 12 addresses of 15 in the postcode
• EC1V 4PS: 12 addresses
• EC1V 4UA: 12 addresses
• EC1M 4DZ: 11 addresses
• EC1V 4NR: 11 addresses
• EC1M 4HG: 10 addresses
• EC1V 4JT: 10 addresses
• EC1V 4JW: 10 addresses
• EC1V 4NB: 10 addresses of 15 in the postcode
• EC1V 4UD: 10 addresses of 12 in the postcode
• EC1M 4NQ: 9 addresses
• EC1V 4PG: 9 addresses
• EC1V 4DE: 8 addresses of 9 in the postcode
• EC1V 4PE: 8 addresses of 9 in the postcode
• EC1V 4UB: 8 addresses
• EC1M 4NJ: 7 addresses
• EC1V 4LW: 7 addresses
• EC1M 4HF: 6 addresses
• EC1M 4NR: 6 addresses
• EC1V 4JA: 6 addresses of 7 in the postcode
• EC1V 4NA: 6 addresses
• EC1M 4NU: 5 addresses
• EC1V 0HN: 5 addresses of 27 in the postcode
• EC1M 4DL: 4 addresses
• EC1M 4NN: 4 addresses
• EC1V 4PD: 4 addresses
• EC1M 4NX: 3 addresses
• EC1M 4JN: 2 addresses
• EC1R 4TR: 2 addresses of 56 in the postcode
• EC1V 4PB: 2 addresses
• EC1M 4EG: 1 address
• EC1M 4NT: 1 address
• EC1M 6AA: 1 address of 26 in the postcode
• EC1M 6HJ: 1 address of 58 in the postcode
• EC1R 0JD: 1 address of 11 in the postcode
• EC1R 4AE: 1 address of 3 in the postcode
• EC1V 4EX: 1 address
• EC1V 4JH: 1 address of 33 in the postcode
• EC1V 4RN: 1 address
• EC1V 4RW: 1 address
• N7 0PJ: 1 address of 43 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Sekforde Street · Agdon Street · Woodbridge Street · Sans Walk · Skinner Street · Aylesbury Street · Kingsway Place · Brewhouse Yard · Percival Street · Hayward's Place · St James's Walk · Compton Passage

All the streets in EC1M, EC1R, EC1V, N7 and across Islington.