Numbers 18-31 (Consecutive) And Attached Railings
NUMBERS 18-31 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 18-31, CLAREMONT SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195542
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 18-31 (Consecutive) And Attached Railings
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 18-31 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 18-31, CLAREMONT SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195542
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Sept-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 18-31 (Consecutive) And Attached Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 18-31 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 18-31, CLAREMONT SQUARE
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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 18-31 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 18-31, CLAREMONT 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 31206 83009
Details
ISLINGTON
TQ3183SW CLAREMONT SQUARE 635-1/64/268 (South side) 29/09/72 Nos.18-31 (Consecutive) and attached railings (Formerly Listed as: CLAREMONT SQUARE (South side) Nos.18 & 19;20-26;27-31)
GV II
Terrace of 14 houses on south side of square. 1821-1828. By William Chadwell Mylne, Surveyor to the New River Estate; restored c.1970 (no. 31 completely dismantled and refronted 1979) by Andrews Sherlock, architects. Beige and gold stock bricks set in Flemish bond with banded stucco ground floors; roofs obscured by parapet, brick party-wall stacks. Side-hall entrance plan with staircase. Four storeys with basement; 2 windows each; centre block (nos. 23-26) projects slightly. Steps rise to entrance on left: doorway with fluted 1/4 column jambs carrying corniced-head, original 6-panelled door (no. 31 C20) and elliptical-arched fanlight (nos. 18-23 & 25, 27-31 patterned). Ground-floor 2/2 (no. 23), 6/6 (nos. 18-20, 22, 24) and 8/8 (21, 25-31) sashes; gauged-brick flat arches to upper floors. 1st floor with stucco sill band to 6/6 full-length sashes set in arched recesses linked by stucco impost bands; coupled iron-bracketed balconies with iron railings in Vitruvian scroll and anthemion pattern. 2nd floor 6/6 sashes; 3rd floor 3/6 (no. 21 6/6; no. 22 3/3) sashes. Plain parapets (with stone coping to nos. 20-22 & 31; stucco parapet to nos. 23-30). Rebuilding and patching-in to upper storeys. Attached iron area railings with knob and disc finials. (The Squares of Islington: Cosh, Mary: Part I: Finsbury and Clerkenwell: London: 1990-: 21-26).
Listing NGR: TQ3120683009
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 368759
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Cosh, M, The Squares of Islington in Finsbury and Clerkenwell, (1990), 21-26
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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