NUMBERS 2-17 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS

NUMBERS 2-17 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 2-17, CLAREMONT SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1279622
Date first listed:: 29-Sep-1972
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 2-17 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 2-17 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 2-17, CLAREMONT SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1279622
Date first listed:: 29-Sep-1972
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Sep-1994
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 2-17 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBERS 2-17 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 2-17, CLAREMONT SQUARE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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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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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Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 2-17 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 2-17, CLAREMONT SQUARE

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County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Islington (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 31112 83025

Details

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TQ3183SW CLAREMONT SQUARE 635-1/64/267 (West side) 29/09/72 Nos.2-17 (Consecutive) and attached railings (Formerly Listed as: CLAREMONT SQUARE Nos.2-14 (Consecutive)) (Formerly Listed as: CLAREMONT SQUARE No.15) (Formerly Listed as: CLAREMONT SQUARE Nos.16 & 17)

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Terrace of 16 houses, part of square. 1821. By William Chadwell Mylne, Surveyor to the New River Estate; restored c. 1970 by Andrews Sherlock, Architects. Beige stock bricks set in Flemish bond with banded stucco ground floors; artificial-slate mansard roofs (no. 16 roof obscured; no. 17 Welsh-slate) with dormers, brick party-wall stacks. Side-hall entrance plan with staircase. Three storeys, basement and attic; 2 windows each. Steps rise to entrance on right (no. 17 entrance on return in Cruickshank Street): doorway (nos. 12, 14, 16, 17 architraved) with fluted 1/4 column jambs (nos. 12 & 14 with panelled pilaster jambs & console brackets; no. 13 fluted pilaster jambs; no. 17 altered) carrying modillioned corniced-head (nos. 13 & 15 new), original 4-panelled (nos. 2, 4, 10, 11, 12, 15) or 6-panelled (no. 16) door (others C20) and fanlight (nos. 11-16 patterned; nos. 5-6, 8-10 new; others plain). Ground-floor 2/2 (nos. 4, 7, 12, 14), 3/3 (no. 2), 6/6 and architraved (no. 17) and 8/8 (nos. 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 13, 15, 16) sashes, no. 14 with Rococo style cast-iron window guard. Gauged-brick flat arches to upper floors. 1st floor with stucco sill band to 6/6 (no. 17 with 4-light casement sashes and rectangular overlights) full-length sashes set in arched recesses linked by stucco impost bands; coupled iron-bracketed balconies with iron railings in diamond, Greek key and circular pattern (no. 15 with Gothic pattern; no. 16 with spiderweb pattern; no. 17 with anthemion and Vitruvian scroll pattern). 2nd floor 6/6 sashes. Plain parapets with stone coping. No. 16 with richly moulded stucco cornice above 2nd floor and full-height 3rd storey with 3/3 sashes. Noticable patching-in and rebuilding to upper storeys. Attached iron area railings. Originally called Myddelton Terrace.

Listing NGR: TQ3111283025

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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.