NUMBERS 39-47, 49-56, 58 AND 59 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS

NUMBERS 39-47, 49-56, 58 AND 59 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 39-47, 49-56, 58 AND 59, COMPTON ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1195567
Date first listed:: 28-Sep-1972
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 39-47, 49-56, 58 AND 59 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 39-47, 49-56, 58 AND 59 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 39-47, 49-56, 58 AND 59, COMPTON ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1195567
Date first listed:: 28-Sep-1972
Date of most recent amendment:: 29-Sep-1994
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 39-47, 49-56, 58 AND 59 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBERS 39-47, 49-56, 58 AND 59 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 39-47, 49-56, 58 AND 59, COMPTON ROAD

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

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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 39-47, 49-56, 58 AND 59 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 39-47, 49-56, 58 AND 59, COMPTON ROAD

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County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Islington (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 31825 84689

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TQ3184NE COMPTON ROAD 635-1/46/333 (West side) 29/09/72 Nos.39-47,49-56,58 & 59 and attached railings (Formerly Listed as: COMPTON ROAD Nos.39-58, 59 & 60 (Consecutive) Northampton house)

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Terraced houses, no 59 now offices. 1847-53. Developed by George Frasi and James Beaumont. Brick, stucco, roofs of slate. Three storeys over basement, two windows each, though some houses have been thrown into one with a common porch. The terrace is set out almost symmetrically with three ranges having a fourth storey in the attic and six windows to each range (nos 39-41, 49-50 and 58-9, though no 59 lacks an attic); in between are two ranges of twelve windows each. Flat-arched windows to all but attic storeys, which are round-arched. Stucco to half-basement and ground floor, that to ground floor being banded. Greek Doric prostyle porches with panelled doors and fanlights; cast-iron balustrades to sides; first-floor windows have cornices on consoles and cast-iron balconies the full length of the terrace; second-floor windows have architraves; cornice and blocking course to three-storey houses, the groups being divided by stops on consoles; secondary cornice to fourth-storey attics with blocking course. Windows to nos 39-47 have mainly margin lights; those to nos 49-50 are a mixture of margin lights and three-by-two sashes; nos 51-58 have mainly three-by-two sashes. No 39 has a two-storey entrance wing set back, ground floor stuccoed with pilasters flanking the entrance. No 59 is three-storeys over half-basement, with a two-bay extension to the terrace with return into St Paul's Road of three bays: ground floor and half-basement of channelled stucco, single-storey side entrance flanked by pilasters; simple architraves to first and second floors, string course between the two. Cast-iron railings to area between squat stuccoed piers, with fleur-de-lys finials. (Historians' file, English Heritage London Division).

Listing NGR: TQ3182584689

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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.