NUMBERS 14 TO 23 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS

NUMBERS 14 TO 23 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 14-23, LLOYD SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1279528
Date first listed:: 29-Dec-1950
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 14 TO 23 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 14 TO 23 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 14-23, LLOYD SQUARE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1279528
Date first listed:: 29-Dec-1950
Date of most recent amendment:: 29-Sep-1994
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 14 TO 23 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBERS 14 TO 23 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 14-23, LLOYD SQUARE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 14 TO 23 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 14-23, LLOYD SQUARE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Islington (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 31086 82807

Details

ISLINGTON

TQ3182NW LLOYD SQUARE 635-1/68/599 (North side) 29/12/50 Nos.14-23 (Consecutive) and attached railings (Formerly Listed as: LLOYD SQUARE (North side) Nos.3-12; 14-18; 20-29) (Formerly Listed as: LLOYD SQUARE No.19)

GV II

Terrace of villas. 1832. Ten semi-detached linked villas on slope of hill along north side of square. Planned in 1828 and laid out in 1832 by John Booth, and his son, also John, Surveyors for the Lloyd Baker Estate; another son William Joseph, architect. Brown and gold stock bricks set in Flemish bond with stucco dressings, and stucco pediment over each pair; Welsh and artificial slate gabled roofs, many with roof extensions, others obscured by parapet; brick centre stacks. Side-hall entrance plan to outer linked bay of each house. Restrained Greek Revival style. Two-storeys with basement; 2 windows each including recessed 1-window entrance bay coupled as link and left-hand (Cumberland Gardens) and right-hand (Lloyd Street) return walls with scattered windows. Low steps rise to deeply recessed stucco entrance with antae supporting entablature except no. 15 (altered). Architraved (no. 20 with reeded surround with corner stops) doorway with corniced-head, rectangular overlight and original panelled door except nos. 14 and 18 (C20 door). Architraved sashes throughout: ground-floor predominantly 6/6 sashes (with margin lights) and no. 17 with cast-iron window guards. 1st floor mostly with 2/2 and 6/6 sashes with margin lights; returns with scattered and irregular sashes. 1st floor recessed balconied links with narrower doors or sashes: nos. 15-16 with deteriorated turned wooden columns which once supported 1st floor porch roof and with notable patching in to brick wall; nos. 21-22 with cast-iron structure with glazed roof and Neoclassical support. Plain stucco band beneath pediments (nos. 16, 17, 18, & 19 with stucco infill to lower corners); stucco parapet with stucco coping or blocking course to 1st floor recessed link. Good paved flagstones to nos. 14 & 15 entrance steps and walk. Attached cast-iron railings with urn finials. (The Squares of Islington: Cosh, M: The Squares of Islington Part I: Finsbury and Clerkenwell: Islington: 1990-: 57-58).

Listing NGR: TQ3108682807

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Legacy System number:: 369117
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Cosh, M, 'The Squares of Islington' in Finsbury and Clerkenwell, (1990), 57-58

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.