Numbers 163-185 (Odd) And Attached Railings
NUMBERS 163-185 (ODD) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 163-185, BARNSBURY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195467
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 163-185 (Odd) And Attached Railings
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 163-185 (ODD) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 163-185, BARNSBURY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195467
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Sept-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 163-185 (Odd) And Attached Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 163-185 (ODD) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 163-185, BARNSBURY ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 163-185 (ODD) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 163-185, BARNSBURY ROAD
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 31127 83852
Details
ISLINGTON
TQ3183NW BARNSBURY ROAD 635-1/58/62 (West side) 12/12/75 Nos.163-185 (Odd) and attached railings (Formerly Listed as: RICHMOND AVENUE (West side) Nos.163-185 (Odd))
GV II
Includes: No.90A RICHMOND AVENUE. 12 terraced houses. Dated 1837. Multi-coloured stock bricks with banded stucco ground-floor to centre-piece block (nos. 171-175); roof obscured by parapets, brick party-wall stacks. Side-hall entrance plan with staircase. Three storeys with basement; 2 windows each. Centre block and right end house (no. 185) slightly projecting. Round-arched ground-floor openings. Steps rise to entrance in right bay (entrance to no. 185 on the return to Richmond Avenue): doorway with fluted 1/4 column jambs carrying corniced-head, fine original 4-panelled door (nos. 165 & 179 columns removed; no. 167 original door behind C20 board; no. 169 door & right column stripped; nos. 175-179 C20 doors; nos. 165 & 181 original doors in poor condition) and patterned fanlight to nos. 165, 167, 169, & 183 (nos. 171 & 173 with curved and radial glazing bars; others plain). Ground-floor gauged-brick round arches (centre-block openings set in stucco panelled recess) to 6/6 sashes (2/2 sashes to 179): intersecting Gothic style glazing bars to nos. 163 to 169; curved and radial glazing bars to nos. 171-173 & 183-185. Gauged-brick flat arches to upper floors. 1st floor with stucco sill band to full-length 6/6 (nos. 165, 169, 173, 177, 181, 183, 185), 2/2 (163, 167, 175, & 179) and 6/2 (no. 171) sashes set in arched recess linked by stucco impost bands (centre-block damaged architraved sashes without arched recess and impost bands); coupled iron-bracketed balconies (no. 185 with single balcony; nos. 165, 171, 173, 179 & 181 balconies removed) with Gothic style trefoil and arch (no. 175 with partially destroyed spiderweb pattern) pattern to iron railings. Stone date plaque between 1st and 2nd storey to no. 173 painted over. 2nd floor with 6/6 sashes (nos. 165, 171 & 179 with 2/2 sashes). Significant patching-in and rebuilding to various parts of upper storeys. Brick string course to nos. 163-169 and 177-181; stucco parapet to 171-175 (no. 171 scraped); stucco cornice and plain brick parapets with stone coping to nos. 183-185. No. 185 has a return to 90A Richmond Avenue, which is its main frontage. Brick beneath stucco lined as ashlar. Regency style. Centre-hall entrance plan. Three-window range; double-fronted with 2 broad bowed outer bays to upper floors carried on slender iron colonnettes. 4-panelled door set-back beneath upper projection; other details similar to Barnsbury Street elevation. 6/6 sashes; upper storey sashes with architraves including one blind window to 2nd floor centre bay. Moulded cornice, wide parapet with stone coping. All houses have attached porch and area iron railings in Gothic and geometric patterns.
Listing NGR: TQ3112783852
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 368550
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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