Numbers 62 to 66 (Even) And Attached Railings and Garden Gate
NUMBERS 62 TO 66 (EVEN) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GARDEN GATE, 62-66, RICHMOND AVENUE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208399
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 62 to 66 (Even) And Attached Railings and Garden Gate
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 62 TO 66 (EVEN) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GARDEN GATE, 62-66, RICHMOND AVENUE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208399
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Sept-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 62 to 66 (Even) And Attached Railings and Garden Gate
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 62 TO 66 (EVEN) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GARDEN GATE, 62-66, 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 62 TO 66 (EVEN) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GARDEN GATE, 62-66, 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 31013 83870
Details
ISLINGTON
TQ3183NW RICHMOND AVENUE 635-1/58/706 (South side) 29/09/72 Nos.62-66 (Even) and attached railings and garden gate (Formerly Listed as: RICHMOND AVENUE (South side) Nos.62-72 (Even))
GV II
Terrace of 3 attached villas. c.1841. Yellow stock bricks set in Flemish bond with recessed link, 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 left bay (nos. 64 & 66) and to right bay (no. 62) with flanking stone sphinx and obelisk on stucco balustrade (sphinxes missing from no. 66 & obelisks missing from nos. 64 & 66); 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 architraves 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. 62 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: TQ3101383870
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 369226
- 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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