NUMBERS 44-70 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS

NUMBERS 44-70 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 44-70, GIBSON SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1195597
Date first listed:: 29-Sep-1972
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 44-70 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 44-70 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 44-70, GIBSON SQUARE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1195597
Date first listed:: 29-Sep-1972
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 44-70 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBERS 44-70 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 44-70, GIBSON 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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Location

Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 44-70 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 44-70, GIBSON 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 31510 83851

Details

ISLINGTON

TQ3183NE GIBSON SQUARE 635-1/59/414 (East side) 29/09/72 Nos.44-70 (Consecutive) and attached railings

GV II

Terraced houses. c.1828-30. Yellow brick set in Flemish bond, stucco, roofs of Welsh and artificial slate, so far as visible. Three and four storeys over basement, two windows each, except to nos 50 and 69 which have one window each. Nos 49-70 form a symmetrical group in relation to Gibson Square, nos 58-61 being a centrepiece, breaking forward, nos 49-51 and 68-70 endpieces also breaking forward; the endpieces have three pairs of giant pilasters with entablature, and a pediment to the middle house. Basement and ground floor stuccoed, the ground floor decorated with banded rustication; steps up to round-arched entrance with pilaster jambs which are panelled except to nos 46 (reeded), 50 and 51 (plain) and 65, 66 and 70 which have pilasters partly sunk in the jamb, cornice, fanlight, with decorative glazing to nos 42-7, 49-51, 53-58, 62-63, 65 and 69; some panelled doors. Ground-floor window round-arched with radiating glazing bars to all, except that on nos 47-49, 51, 56, 59-60, 67-68 they are either missing or replaced. First-floor windows flat-arched with stucco architrave and cornice except on nos 58-61 which have round-arched windows with gauged brick heads and radiating glazing bars to nos 58-60; iron balconies to all except no 68. Second-floor windows are flat-arched with stucco architraves. Cornice and attic storey to nos 44-5 and 58-61, the rest having a stucco band to the parapet, entablature and pediments to nos 49-51 and 68-70. Stacks on party walls. Cast-iron railings to area with ball-and-disc and spear and tassel finials.

Listing NGR: TQ3151083851

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Legacy System:: LBS

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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.