NUMBER 24-33 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS

NUMBER 24-33 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 24-33, GRANVILLE SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1209870
Date first listed:: 29-Sep-1972
List Entry Name:: NUMBER 24-33 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: NUMBER 24-33 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 24-33, GRANVILLE SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1209870
Date first listed:: 29-Sep-1972
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Sep-1994
List Entry Name:: NUMBER 24-33 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBER 24-33 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 24-33, GRANVILLE SQUARE

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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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Location

Statutory Address:: NUMBER 24-33 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 24-33, GRANVILLE SQUARE

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County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Islington (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 30960 82607

Details

ISLINGTON

TQ3082NE GRANVILLE SQUARE 635-1/67/420 (South West side) 29/09/72 Nos.24-33 (Consecutive) and attached railings (Formerly Listed as: GRANVILLE SQUARE Nos.1-13;22-38B;39-41 (Consecutive))

GV II

10 terraced houses. In Square planned 1828 by John Booth and his son, also John, Surveyors for the Lloyd Baker Estate. Built 1841-1843 by William Joseph Booth, another son, architect; nos. 27-38B built 1864 by Metropolitan Railway; buildings essentially dismantled and reconstucted c1980 by Islington Council and converted to flats. Yellow stock brick set in Flemish bond with banded stucco ground-floor to nos. 24-26, stucco lined as ashlar to nos. 27-33 and stucco dressings; roofs obscured. Side-hall entrance plan; no. 24 with stucco portico side entrance in left-hand return wall in Granville Street. Three storeys with basement; 2 windows each. Symmetrical composition: houses in groups of six; centre and end houses break forward. Steps rise to entrance: doorway with panelled pilaster jambs carrying corniced-head, patterned or plain rectangular overlight and original panelled door to nos. 24, 29-33; others with C20 panelled door. Doors to nos. 29-32 paired and share common console-bracket. 6/6 and 8/8 sashes to nos. 24-26: ground-floor with margin lights; upper floors architraved and 1st floor full-length sashes with cornices and individual balconies with cast-iron railings. Tripartite pilastered ground-floor sashes with keystones to nos. 27-33 and cast-iron window guards to nos. 29-32; predominantly 2/2 sashes to upper floors of 27-33, some with iron window guards and sill brackets. Plain stucco band beneath cornice and blocking course to nos. 24-26; nos. 27-33 with brick string course and plain brick parapet, some with iron tie rods. Plain brick right return (no. 33) forms side wall to 'Riceyman Steps' (q.v.). Attached cast-iron railings with tasselled spearhead finials. Granville Square was the final portion of the Lloyd Baker Estate to be built; formerly it had functioned as a rubbish tip by builders of nearby streets. Originally it was called Sharp Square in honour of Thomas Lloyd Baker's wife, niece to William Granville Sharp, Esq, of Fulham. St. Philip's church was built first, in the centre of the Square, by Edward Buckton Lamb, architect, in 1831-1833 but it was demolished in 1938. Granville Square is the only street in the Lloyd Baker Estate that was built in a conventional terrrace style and is notably squeezed into a restricted space between Wharton and Lloyd Baker Streets. Entrances to Square at north and south via Granville Street and from west connected to King's Cross Road by a flight of granite steps known variously as "Plum Pudding Steps" or "Riceyman Steps". (The Squares of Islington: Cosh, M: The Squares of Islington Part I: Finsbury and Clerkenwell: Islington: 1990-: 47-51).

Listing NGR: TQ3096082607

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Cosh, M, 'The Squares of Islington' in Finsbury and Clerkenwell, (1990), 47-51

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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.