NUMBERS 68 TO 72 (EVEN) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GARDEN GATE

NUMBERS 68 TO 72 (EVEN) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GARDEN GATE, 68-72, RICHMOND AVENUE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1195710
Date first listed:: 29-Sep-1972
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 68 TO 72 (EVEN) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GARDEN GATE
Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 68 TO 72 (EVEN) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GARDEN GATE, 68-72, RICHMOND AVENUE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1195710
Date first listed:: 29-Sep-1972
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Sep-1994
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 68 TO 72 (EVEN) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GARDEN GATE
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBERS 68 TO 72 (EVEN) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GARDEN GATE, 68-72, RICHMOND AVENUE

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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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Location

Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 68 TO 72 (EVEN) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GARDEN GATE, 68-72, RICHMOND AVENUE

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County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Islington (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 31045 83872

Details

ISLINGTON

TQ3183NW RICHMOND AVENUE 635-1/58/707 (South side) 29/09/72 Nos.68-72 (Even) and attached railings and garden gate (Formerly Listed as: RICHMOND AVENUE (South side) Nos.62-72 (Even))

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Terrace of 3 attached villas. c.1841. Yellow stock bricks set in Flemish bond with stucco ground floor and dressings; Welsh-slate hipped roof with coupled brackets to projecting eaves and centre brick stacks. Side-hall entrance plan with staircase. Greco-Egyptian style and detail. Three storeys with basement; 2 windows each. 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 right bay (nos. 68 & 70) and to left bay (no. 72) with flanking stone sphinxes and obelisks on stucco balustrades (sphinxes missing from no. 70); 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. Recessed stucco panels below ground-floor sashes; upper floors with stylised architraved sashes decorated with paterae. 1st floor with moulded stucco storey band and cast-iron Neoclassical style window-guards with palmette motif. Linked garden gate attached to no. 72 in same style but with iron guards removed; all houses with 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: TQ3104583872

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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.