Numbers 40-43 (Consecutive) And Attached Railings
NUMBERS 40-43 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 40-43, WHARTON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195787
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 40-43 (Consecutive) And Attached Railings
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 40-43 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 40-43, WHARTON STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195787
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Sept-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 40-43 (Consecutive) And Attached Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 40-43 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 40-43, WHARTON STREET
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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 40-43 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 40-43, 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 30926 82702
Details
ISLINGTON
TQ3082NE WHARTON STREET 635-1/67/898 (South side) 29/09/72 Nos.40-43 (Consecutive) and attached railings (Formerly Listed as: WHARTON Nos.33-47 (Consecutive))
GV II
Terrace of 4 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 and artificial slate gabled roofs, others obscured by parapet; centre brick or stucco rendered stacks. Restrained Greek Revival style. Side-hall entrance plan to outer linked bay of each house except no. 43 which has porticoed entrance to right-hand return wall in Granville Street. Two-storeys with basements; 2 windows each including recessed 1-window entrance bay coupled as link. Low steps rise to deeply recessed stucco entrance with antae supporting entablature surmounted by C20 reproduction iron balcony railings except no. 43 (projecting with coupled antae and no railing). Architraved doorway with C20 pair of panelled doors. Architraved 6/6 sashes with margin lights throughout. 1st floor recessed balconied links with narrower doors or 6/6 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: Cosh, Mary: The Squares of Islington Part I: Finsbury and Clerkenwell: Islington: 1990-: 57-58).
Listing NGR: TQ3092682702
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 369428
- 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.
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