NUMBERS 1-6 (CONSECUTIVE) WITH ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GATE ATTACHED TO NUMBER 1

NUMBERS 1-6 (CONSECUTIVE) WITH ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GATE ATTACHED TO NUMBER 1, 1-6, CUMBERLAND GARDENS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1195576
Date first listed:: 27-Aug-1957
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 1-6 (CONSECUTIVE) WITH ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GATE ATTACHED TO NUMBER 1
Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 1-6 (CONSECUTIVE) WITH ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GATE ATTACHED TO NUMBER 1, 1-6, CUMBERLAND GARDENS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1195576
Date first listed:: 27-Aug-1957
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 1-6 (CONSECUTIVE) WITH ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GATE ATTACHED TO NUMBER 1
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBERS 1-6 (CONSECUTIVE) WITH ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GATE ATTACHED TO NUMBER 1, 1-6, CUMBERLAND GARDENS

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 1-6 (CONSECUTIVE) WITH ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GATE ATTACHED TO NUMBER 1, 1-6, CUMBERLAND GARDENS

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County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Islington (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 31025 82824

Details

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TQ3182NW CUMBERLAND GARDENS 635-1/68/355 (East side) 27/08/57 Nos.1-6 (Consecutive) with attached railings & gate attached to no. 1

GV II

Terrace of six semi-detached linked villas. In street/passageway linking Wharton Street/Lloyd Square with Great Percy Street. c.1830 by John Booth, and his son, also John, Surveyors for the Lloyd Baker Estate. Multi-coloured stock bricks set in Flemish bond with stucco dressings, and stucco pediment over each pair (no. 2 altered); Welsh (nos. 4-5) and artificial slate gabled roofs, others obscured by parapet; brick centre stacks. Fine design in restrained Greek Revival style. Side-hall entrance plan to outer linked bay of each house. Two-storeys with basement; 2 windows each including recessed 1-window entrance bay coupled as links. Low steps rise to deeply recessed stucco entrance with antae supporting entablature except no. 6 (plain stucco square opening). Architraved panelled door (nos. 1, 4-6 original), some with fluted pilaster jambs (3, 4), reeded surround (5), rectangular overlights (1, 2, 4, 5) and various alterations with architraved sashes throughout: ground-floor with 2/2 (6), 6/6 (2, 3), 6/6 with cast-iron window guards (1) and 8/8 sashes (4, 5). 1st floor predominantly 2/2 sashes. 1st floor recessed balconied links with various narrower doors or sashes. Plain stucco band beneath pediments; stucco parapet with stucco coping or blocking course to 1st floor recessed link. Nos. 1-2 with extensive alterations. Attached cast-iron railings with urn finials; additional Neoclassical railing, scrolled braces and iron overthrow to trade entrance to nos. 5 & 6. Garden gate to right of no. 1 with attached iron spikes over passageway entrance.

Listing NGR: TQ3102582824

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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.