Numbers 50 and 52 (Even) And Attached Railings and Garden Gates
NUMBERS 50 AND 52 (EVEN) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GARDEN GATES, 50 AND 52, RICHMOND AVENUE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195709
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 50 and 52 (Even) And Attached Railings and Garden Gates
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 50 AND 52 (EVEN) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GARDEN GATES, 50 AND 52, RICHMOND AVENUE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195709
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Sept-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 50 and 52 (Even) And Attached Railings and Garden Gates
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 50 AND 52 (EVEN) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GARDEN GATES, 50 AND 52, RICHMOND AVENUE
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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 50 AND 52 (EVEN) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GARDEN GATES, 50 AND 52, RICHMOND AVENUE
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 30951 83869
Details
ISLINGTON
TQ3083NE RICHMOND AVENUE 635-1/57/703 (South side) 29/09/72 Nos.50 AND 52 (Even) and attached railings and garden gates (Formerly Listed as: RICHMOND AVENUE (South side) Nos.46-60 (Even))
GV II
Semi-detached villa. c. 1841. Yellow stock bricks set in Flemish bond with stucco ground floor and dressings; hipped roof with projecting eaves and centre brick stacks. Side-hall entrance plan with staircase. Greco-Egyptian style and detail. Three storeys with basement; 2 windows each plus recessed link. Ground-floor bays articulated by stylised rounded pilasters with paterae to tops; horizontal row of paterae extends between pilasters above entrance and sash. Steps rise to deeply recessed entrance porch to outer bays with flanking stone sphinxes and obelisks on stucco balustrade (obelisks missing from No. 52); doorway with pilaster jambs carrying corniced-head, original 4-panelled studded door and rectangular overlight. 6/6 sashes throughout: ground-floor sashes with margin lights and recessed stucco panels below; upper floors with stylised architraves decorated with paterae. 1st floor with moulded stucco storey band and cast-iron Neoclassical style window guards with palmette motif. No. 52 with coupled brackets to eaves. Linked garden gates in same style but with iron guards removed; attached cast-iron area railings. In 1925 Arnold Bennett wrote in his diary after taking a trip to explore Barnsbury...'The sphinxes and little Cleopatra needles in front of the porticoes of a long row of houses in Richmond Road [sic] are too marvellous.'
Listing NGR: TQ3095183869
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 369223
- 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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