NUMBERS 1 AND 2 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS

NUMBERS 1 AND 2 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 1-2, MYDDELTON SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1208072
Date first listed:: 29-Dec-1950
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 1 AND 2 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 1 AND 2 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 1-2, MYDDELTON SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1208072
Date first listed:: 29-Dec-1950
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 1 AND 2 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBERS 1 AND 2 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 1-2, MYDDELTON SQUARE

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 1 AND 2 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 1-2, MYDDELTON SQUARE

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 31270 82849

Details

ISLINGTON

TQ3182NW MYDDELTON SQUARE 635-1/68/637 (South West side) 29/12/50 Nos.1-2 and attached railings

GV II

Terrace of two houses. Attached to nos. 1-12 River Street (q.v.) and leading into Myddelton Square from the west. 1824-1827; C20 post-War rebuilding to no. 2. By William Chadwell Mylne, Surveyor to the New River Estate. Yellow stock brick set in Flemish bond with banded stucco ground-floor and stucco dressings; roofs obscured by parapets, brick party-wall stacks. Side-hall entrance plan. Four storeys with basement; 2 windows each plus left-hand return wall to no. 2 in Myddelton Passage. Steps rise to round and elliptical-arched entrance: doorway with 3/4 fluted column jambs carrying corniced-head, plain fanlight and original panelled door to no. 2. Ground-floor has round and elliptical-arched sashes set in stucco recess with panel below. Gauged brick flat-arched mostly 6/6 and 3/3 sashes to upper floors (some French doors). 1st floor stucco sill band beneath full-length sashes set in arched recesses linked by stucco impost bands and with iron-bracketed coupled cast-iron balconies with Vitruvian scroll and anthemion pattern to railings. Some rebuilding to upper floors; plain brick parapet with stone coping. Good attached cast-iron railings with urn finials. C20 wall to Myddelton Passage elevation (no. 2) due to bomb damage and subsequent demolition of nos. 3 and 4 in Second World War. (The Squares of Islington: Cosh, M: The Squares of Islington Part I: Finsbury and Clerkenwell: Islington: 1990-: 59-62).

Listing NGR: TQ3127082849

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Legacy System number:: 369154
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Cosh, M, 'The Squares of Islington' in Finsbury and Clerkenwell, (1990), 59-62

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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.