Canonbury House and Attached Walls and Railings
CANONBURY HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS, CANONBURY PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280446
- Date first listed:
- 20-Sept-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Canonbury House and Attached Walls and Railings
- Statutory Address:
- CANONBURY HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS, CANONBURY PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280446
- Date first listed:
- 20-Sept-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Canonbury House and Attached Walls and Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- CANONBURY HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS, CANONBURY PLACE
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.
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:
- CANONBURY HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS, CANONBURY PLACE
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 31944 84507
Details
ISLINGTON
TQ3184NE CANONBURY PLACE 635-1/46/170 (East side) 20/09/54 Canonbury House and attached walls and railings
GV II
Formerly known as: St Stephen's Vicarage. Detached house. c.1795, altered. Brick, stucco, stone, and roof of slate. Two storeys over basement, with dormers in attic. Five bays window range with central entrance; all windows have flat arches of gauged brick. String course above basement windows; ground-floor windows and entrance recessed under round arches linked by moulded springing band; the entrance has panelled double doors between Ionic engaged columns supporting modillion cornice which breaks back in the centre; overlight. Ground-floor windows have architraves and blind boxes; first-floor windows flat-arched with heads of gauged brick; mutule cornice with balustrade and two pedimented dormers above, all in stone, the dormers probably of late C19 or early C20 date. Hipped-roof with side stacks. Brick dentil cornice to rear and side elevations. Three storey hipped wing, an addition probably of the early C19, projects from centre of rear elevation. Iron railings with urn finials and overthrow lampholder at front of house. Principal facade flanked by garden walls with pineapple finials to the piers; the wall continues down Canonbury Place facing nos 1-5 (q.v.), C18 brick except where it is upswept to embrace an arched and pedimented garden entrance of London stock brick. Inside, the depth of the central staircase hall is divided into three by round arches, the second arch being filled by a flat-arched reeded architrave with decorative fanlight. The walls are articulated by three shallow round blank arches to either side; modillion cornice to the first two bays. Dog-leg staircase with wreathed and ramped handrail, stick balusters, and open string, running from basement up to second floor. Original panelled doors, architraves and panelled window embrasures to ground floor. Left-hand room on the ground floor has dado rail, picture rail, and egg-and-dart cornice with Greek key pattern to the ceiling; cast-iron grate and chimneypiece in the Adam style; the wall of a smaller, linked room to the rear is curved at its north-east corner with a fitted corner cupboard facing, with entablature of c.1800. The right-hand front room on the first floor has a Neo-classical cast-iron grate with a bolection-moulded chimneypiece. (Historians' file, English Heritage London Division).
Listing NGR: TQ3194484507
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 368661
- 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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