NUMBERS 5 TO 24 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS

NUMBERS 5 TO 24 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 5-24, WHARTON STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1195786
Date first listed:: 29-Sep-1972
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 5 TO 24 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 5 TO 24 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 5-24, WHARTON STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1195786
Date first listed:: 29-Sep-1972
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 5 TO 24 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBERS 5 TO 24 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 5-24, WHARTON STREET

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 5 TO 24 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 5-24, WHARTON STREET

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 30920 82736

Details

ISLINGTON

TQ3082NE WHARTON STREET 635-1/67/895 (North side) 29/09/72 Nos.5-24 (Consecutive) and attached railings (Formerly Listed as: WHARTON STREET Nos.5-24; 33-47 (Consecutive))

GV II

Terrace of 20 semi-detached linked villas. On slope of hill. Street laid out in 1832 by John Booth, and his son, also John, Surveyors for the Lloyd Baker Estate. Gold stock bricks set in Flemish bond with stucco dressings, and stucco pediment over each pair; Welsh (nos. 6, 10, 12) and artificial slate gabled roofs, others obscured by parapet; centre brick or stucco rendered stacks. Side-hall entrance plan to outer linked bay of each house. Restrained Greek Revival style. Two-storeys with basements; 2-windows each including recessed 1-window entrance bays coupled as link. Low steps rise to deeply recessed stucco entrance with antae supporting entablature surmounted by C20 reproduction iron balcony railings. Architraved doorway with pair of 3-panelled doors except to nos. 5-10 (4 & 6-panelled single door). Architraved sashes throughout: ground-floor with predominantly 6/6 sashes with margin lights except to nos. 7-10, 12, 14, 21, 24 (8/8) and 1st floor 8/8 sashes except nos. 18-20, 22, 23 (6/6 with margin lights) and nos. 23-24 with cast-iron Neo-classical window guards in palmette pattern; 1st floor recessed balconied links with narrower doors nos. 20, 21, 23, 24 (original) or various sashes. Plain stucco band beneath pediments; stucco parapet with stone coping or blocking course to 1st floor recessed link. Attached iron railings. (Historians File, English Heritage, London Division: 1990-; The Squares of Islington: Mary Cosh: The Squares of Islington Part I: Finsbury and Clerkenwell: Islington: 1990-: 57-58).

Listing NGR: TQ3092082736

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Legacy System number:: 369425
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Cosh, M, 'The Squares of Islington' in Finsbury and Clerkenwell, , Vol. 1, (1990), 57-58

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.