NUMBERS 1-12 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS

NUMBERS 1-12 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 1-12, CANONBURY SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1195513
Date first listed:: 20-Sep-1954
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 1-12 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 1-12 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 1-12, CANONBURY SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1195513
Date first listed:: 20-Sep-1954
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 1-12 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBERS 1-12 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 1-12, CANONBURY 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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Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 1-12 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 1-12, CANONBURY 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 31796 84408

Details

ISLINGTON

TQ3184SE CANONBURY SQUARE 635-1/53/189 (South side) 20/09/54 Nos.1-12 (Consecutive) and attached railings

GV II

Terraced houses. 1821. Developed by Richard Laycock. Grey brick laid in Flemish bond, stucco, roof obscured by parapet. Four storeys over basement, two windows each. Nos 1-2, 6-7, and ll-l2 project slightly. Steps up to round-arched entrance with engaged Greek Doric columns, cornice, fanlight with decorative glazing, panelled door of original design. Ground-floor window elliptical-arched with gauged brick head, set within a recessed panel of the same kind. Nos 1- 2, 6-7, and 11-12 are distinguished by channelled rusticated stucco to ground floor and entrances with elliptical arches and simple doorcases; nos 6-7 have a double open porch of Greek Doric columns carrying a single entablature; nos 1-2 and 11-12 have only the rear pilasters of such a scheme. Nos 1, 4-9, and 11-12 have 2/4 sashes with pointed-arched glazing bars. Stucco band between floors. All upper windows flat-arched with gauged brick heads and 6/6 sashes to first and second floor, 3/6 to most third-floor windows. First-floor windows have piano nobile proportions and are set within recessed round-arched panels with gauged brick heads, the arcade linked by a stucco springing band. Shallow iron balconies to all first floor windows except no 5 which has a deeper balcony carried on brackets with iron railings. Cornice band above second floor. Parapet. Single-storey extension to side of no 1 with one elliptical-arched window set within similar recessed panel. No 8 has an LCC tablet recording the residence of Samuel Phelps, tragedian. Cast-iron railings to area. (Historians' file, English Heritage London Division).

Listing NGR: TQ3179684408

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