12A Charterhouse Square, and Walls and Railings
12A, CHARTERHOUSE SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195525
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 12A Charterhouse Square, and Walls and Railings
- Statutory Address:
- 12A, CHARTERHOUSE SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195525
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Sept-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 12A Charterhouse Square, and Walls and Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- 12A, CHARTERHOUSE SQUARE
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:
- 12A, CHARTERHOUSE 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 31982 81978
Details
TQ3181NE
635-1/77/213
ISLINGTON
CHARTERHOUSE SQUARE (North side)
No.12A and attached walls and railings
(Formerly Listed as: CHARTERHOUSE SQUARE Screen wall north of no 12A, formerly Listed as: CHARTERHOUSE SQUARE No.12A)
29/09/72
GV
II
Terraced house. Late C18, the bowed window to Charterhouse Square mid-to-late C19. Yellow brick set in Flemish bond, stone, roof of slate. Four storeys over basement, one window to Charterhouse Square, four to Rutland Place. Steps up to round-arched entrance in Rutland Place with fluted quarter-columns, cornice and fanlight with decorative glazing; all windows in Rutland Place flat-arched with gauged brick heads, several blank. To Charterhouse Square, segmental-bowed window to basement, ground and first floors with triple windows having stone mullions and lintels and curved 9/9 sashes; dentil cornice and blocking course with iron railings to balcony; second-floor windows flat-arched; frieze of brick in emulation of triglyphs; parapet; dormers in mansard roof, stacks to north and on party wall to west. To north, late C18 brick screen wall with two flat-arched entrances with pilasters, cornices and fanlights, and two blank, flat-arched windows; brick frieze in emulation of triglyphs, parapet. Screen wall in Rutland Place having flat-arched entrance with pilasters, cornice and overlight, two blank windows and brick frieze in emulation of triglyphs. Cast-iron railings to steps in Rutland Place with iron-twist balusters; area railings in Charterhouse Square with spearhead finials.
Listing NGR: TQ3198281978
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 368703
- 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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