Numbers 21-39 (Odd) And Attached Railings
NUMBERS 21-39 (ODD) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 21-39, GREAT PERCY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209993
- Date first listed:
- 01-Mar-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 21-39 (Odd) And Attached Railings
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 21-39 (ODD) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 21-39, GREAT PERCY STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209993
- Date first listed:
- 01-Mar-1978
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Sept-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 21-39 (Odd) And Attached Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 21-39 (ODD) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 21-39, GREAT PERCY 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 21-39 (ODD) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 21-39, GREAT PERCY 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 30998 82885
Details
ISLINGTON
TQ3082NE GREAT PERCY STREET 635-1/67/429 (North side) 01/03/78 Nos.21-39 (Odd) and attached railings (Formerly Listed as: GREAT PERCY STREET Nos.15-39 (Odd))
GV II
Ten terraced houses. c.1839-1841, altered C20. Probably by William Chadwell Mylne, Surveyor for the New River Estate. Yellow stock bricks with rusticated stucco ground-floor and stucco dressings; party-wall brick stacks; roofs obscured. Side-hall entrance plan. Four storeys with basement, 2 windows each (no. 39 with right return of 2 windows; all blind). Low steps rise to entrance in left bays (no. 39 with fine prostyle portico side entrance in Holford Street): round-arched ground-floor openings (except no. 39) including doorway with pilaster jambs carrying corniced-head, panelled door (no. 19 C20 door) and plain fanlight. 6/6 sashes to ground, 1st and 2nd floors. 1st floor stucco sill band to gauged-brick flat arched full-length sashes (no. 39 with architraved 1st and 2nd floor sashes with 1st floor cornices); individual cast-iron balconies to nos. 21 & 23 (C20), coupled cast-iron balconies with iron brackets to nos. 25, 29-39. Gauged-brick flat arches to 2nd floor sashes, nos. 21-23 & 29-35 with cast-iron window guards. Stucco sill band to 3rd floor gauged-brick flat (21-23, 29-31, 37-39) and round-arched (25-27 & 33-35) 3/3 and 3/6 sashes; no. 39 3rd floor with extensive rebuilding and patching-in to both elevations. Altered and cut-back stucco cornice (except nos. 21-23 which is intact) and blocking course. Attached cast-iron railings with finials.
Listing NGR: TQ3099882885
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 368931
- 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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