NUMBERS 4-15 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS

NUMBERS 4-15 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 4-15, PERCY CIRCUS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1195704
Date first listed:: 29-Sep-1972
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 4-15 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 4-15 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 4-15, PERCY CIRCUS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1195704
Date first listed:: 29-Sep-1972
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 4-15 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBERS 4-15 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 4-15, PERCY CIRCUS

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 4-15 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 4-15, PERCY CIRCUS

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 30919 82790

Details

ISLINGTON

TQ3082NE PERCY CIRCUS 635-1/67/687 (South side) 29/09/72 Nos.4-15 (Consecutive) and attached railings

GV II

Twelve terraced houses. Forming crescent between Prideaux Place and the western leg of Great Percy Street on the southern side of a circus built on steep hill. 1841-1843. Circus laid out and probably designed by William Chadwell Mylne for the New River Estate. Gold and brown stock bricks set in Flemish bond with banded stucco ground-floor with channelling and stucco dressings; slate mansard roofs to nos. 5, 6, 9, 10, 13, 14, (no. 13 of Welsh-slate); others obscured by blocking course, brick party-wall stacks. Side-hall entrance plan; side entrance to end houses (nos. 4 & 15) to left and right return walls in Prideaux Place and Great Percy Street. Four storeys with basement to nos. 4, 7, 8, 11, 12, 15; nos. 5, 6, 9, 10, 13, 14 of three storeys with basement and dormered attic; 2 windows each except 1 X 1-bay end houses; houses paired, apart from end houses. Low steps rise to entrance on left (end houses each with side entrance composed of stucco portico; no. 4 with fine console and circlet cornice): width and height of recessed doorway varies to accomodate steep gradient; doorway with pilaster jambs carrying corniced-head, rectangular overlight and panelled door (C20 door to nos. 4, 8, 11; nos. 5 & 15 with C20 jambs, corniced-head and door). End houses and alternate pairs with ground-floor tripartite sashes; intervening pairs and return wall to Prideaux Place with 6/6 (nos. 4, 6, 9, 10) and 8/8 (nos. 5, 13, 14) sashes. Stucco sill band to 1st floor full-length 6/6 architraved sashes with console-bracketed cornices and individual iron-bracketed cast-iron balconies with palmette pattern iron railings; end houses with console-bracketed pedimented tripartite sashes with architraves. 2nd floors of end houses and alternate pairs with 6/6 architraved sashes with keystones (to nos. 7, 8, 11, 12); intervening pairs with gauged brick flat-arches to 6/6 sashes. 3rd floors of end houses and alternate pairs with gauged-brick flat arched 6/6 sashes; nos. 7, 8, 11, 12, 15 with stucco sill band. Stucco cornice and blocking course to end houses and alternate pairs; intervening pairs with stucco parapet with stone coping to attic storey (nos. 5 & 6 with stucco cornice). Attached iron railings. Percy Circus was one of the last additions to the New River Estate and named in honour of Robert Percy Smith, one of the governors of the New River Company. The Circus suffered extensive damage in the 2nd World War and 2 ranges along its northern side were destroyed by bombing; in 1968 a 3rd was pulled down in order to build the Royal Scot Hotel. Percy Circus is one of London's few circuses and its only residential one.

Listing NGR: TQ3091982790

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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.