Numbers 26 to 50 (Consecutive) And Attached Railings
NUMBERS 26 TO 50 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 26-50, MILNER SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195683
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1979
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 26 to 50 (Consecutive) And Attached Railings
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 26 TO 50 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 26-50, MILNER SQUARE
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195683
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1979
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Sept-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 26 to 50 (Consecutive) And Attached Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 26 TO 50 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 26-50, MILNER 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:
- NUMBERS 26 TO 50 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 26-50, MILNER 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 31464 84031
Details
ISLINGTON
TQ3184SW MILNER SQUARE 635-1/52/628 (West side) 15/03/79 Nos.26-50 (Consecutive) and attached railings (Formerly Listed as: MILNER SQUARE Nos.1-50 (Consecutive))
GV II
25 terraced houses, now flats, forming western half of oblong square. 1841 by Roumieu and Gough; pilastered entrances altered in the 1930s and entire square remodelled and restored 1978 by Islington Council. Grey and beige brick set in Flemish bond with stucco dressings and ground-floor; roofs and party-wall stacks obscured by parapets. Side-hall entrance plan with staircase. Austere Neoclassical style. Square is strongly unified and idiosyncratic composition, forming an oblong but extending into the 2 exit roads at the narrow ends (with re-entrant corners, the outer angles of which are rounded). Four storeys with basement, 3 windows each. Continuous giant order to 1st and 2nd floors composed of pilastrade that rises from ground storey entablature to strong unbroken stucco entablature above 2nd storey. Broad brick pilasters with raised edges squeeze intervening 1st and 2nd floor sashes, which are separated horizontally by wide moulded-stucco panels. 1st floor full-length 3/3 sashes with margin lights and simple iron balconettes; 2nd floor with 2/2 sashes with margin lights and iron foliated pattern window guards. Ground-floor two windows wide; steps rise to projecting entrance bay: recessed doorway with pilaster jambs carrying corniced-head, 3-panelled door, rectangular overlight and flanking pilasters. Tri-partite ground-floor sash set in panelled recess. Brick arcade to 3rd floor with narrow blind arches above pilasters alternating with margined sashes in-line with sashes to middle storeys. Plain stucco parapet; stucco band indicates where cornice has been removed. Attached iron railings with arrow-head finials and stanchions and smaller similar intermediate finials. Slight variations of treatment at exit roads, each of which has a further 4 houses on each side. Milner Place, by the same architects in similar but milder style, links Milner Square with Gibson Square. Milner Square is important for the radical logic of its design, of a type rarely seen outside Scotland and the North, and unlike anything in London.
Listing NGR: TQ3146484031
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 369145
- 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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