MOUNTFORD HOUSE

MOUNTFORD HOUSE, 15, BARNSBURY SQURE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1281118
Date first listed:: 28-Sep-1972
List Entry Name:: MOUNTFORD HOUSE
Statutory Address:: MOUNTFORD HOUSE, 15, BARNSBURY SQURE

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Date:: 2000-07-26
Reference:: IOE01/02561/30
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1281118
Date first listed:: 28-Sep-1972
Date of most recent amendment:: 29-Sep-1994
List Entry Name:: MOUNTFORD HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: MOUNTFORD HOUSE, 15, BARNSBURY SQURE

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.

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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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Location

Statutory Address:: MOUNTFORD HOUSE, 15, BARNSBURY SQURE

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 31049 84231

Details

ISLINGTON

TQ3184SW BARNSBURY SQUARE 635-1/52/65 (West side) 29/09/72 No.15 Mountford House (Formerly Listed as: BARNSBURY SQUARE No.15 Mica House)

GV II

House; now offices. 1830-1835 with massive C20 side and rear additions for former factory. Brick beneath banded stucco ground floor and stucco upper floors; Welsh-slate hipped roof with projecting bracketed eaves, centre and end-wall brick stacks. Double-fronted detached villa. Centre-hall entrance plan. Neo-classical style. Two-storeys, attic and basement; 5-window range. Steps rise to round-arched, architraved doorway with pair of panelled doors and radial fanlight. Round-arched 6/6 sashes in arched recesses. Ground-floor with one sash to either side of entrance. 1st-floor sashes with archivolts and shell motif to typana; sashes linked by moulded impost string. Attic storey with 5 horizontal sliding sashes flanked by bracketed consoles. Left return also stucco but with brown stock-brick banded detailing. Double-fronted; 3-window range. Steps rise to round-arched architraved doorway with panelled door and C20 fanlight. C20 sashes; C20 1st floor brick storey-band. History: Mountfort House was built on the site of a moat in the early 1830s. Long believed to have been site of a Roman praetorim within an entrenchment; some historians thought it marked the camp of Suetonius Paulinus prior to his defeat of Queen Boadicea at Battle Bridge. This myth has no archaeological foundation and the moat was almost certainly a survival of a farm of Barnsbury Manor. (M. Cosh: An historical walk through BARNSBURY: Islington: 1981-: 21-23).

Listing NGR: TQ3104984231

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Legacy System number:: 368553
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Cosh, M, An Historical Walk Through Barnsbury Islington, (1981), 21-23

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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.