Numbers 28-54 (Even) And Attached Railings
NUMBERS 28-54 (EVEN) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 28-54, GREAT PERCY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292340
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 28-54 (Even) And Attached Railings
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 28-54 (EVEN) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 28-54, GREAT PERCY STREET
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- Date:
- 2005-10-05
- Reference:
- IOE01/14953/07
- Rights:
- © Mr G.W. Garthwaite. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292340
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 28-54 (Even) And Attached Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 28-54 (EVEN) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 28-54, GREAT PERCY STREET
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:
- NUMBERS 28-54 (EVEN) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 28-54, 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 31022 82858
Details
ISLINGTON
TQ3182NW GREAT PERCY STREET 635-1/68/431 (South side) 04/12/69 Nos.28-54 (Even) and attached railings (Formerly Listed as: GREAT PERCY STREET (South side) Nos.28-52 (Even))
GV II
Thirteen terraced houses. In sloping street approaching Percy Circus. c.1839-1841, altered. Probably by William Chadwell Mylne, Surveyor for the New River Estate. Multi-coloured stock bricks with chamfered rusticated stucco ground-floor (except plain stucco to right-hand return wall of no. 28 in Cumberland Gardens; nos. 52-54 with banded stucco) and stucco dressings; party-wall brick stacks; Welsh-slate gabled (nos. 40-44 & 48-52) and mansard (nos. 28, 32-36, 54) roofs, others obscured. Side-hall entrance plan. Three storeys with basement, 2 windows each plus no. 28 with right-hand return wall of 2-window range to Cumberland Gardens and no. 54 left-hand return wall of 2-window range to Lloyd Street. Low steps rise to entrance in right bay (no. 28 with side entrance to return; no. 54 with altered stucco portico entrance): round-arched ground-floor openings including doorway set in recess with pilaster jambs and fluted 1/2 columns (no. 28 with attached, fluted Doric columns; no. 52 with reeded door surround) carrying corniced-head, 6-panelled door (nos. 28-40 & 44-48 original; others C20) and fanlight (no. 48 finely patterned) 6/6 sashes to ground (nos. 28, 32, 36, 38 with margin lights), 1st and 2nd floors. 1st floor stucco sill band to gauged-brick flat arched full-length sashes set in arched recess linked by stucco impost bands; coupled cast-iron balconies with iron brackets and anthemion and Vitruvian scroll (no. 48 Gothic) pattern to railings. Gauged-brick flat arches to 2nd and 3rd floor sashes. Extensive rebuilding and patching-in to upper floors. Altered and cut-back stucco cornice (nos. 38 & 54 stucco removed) and blocking course. Attached cast-iron railings with pine-cone and torch finials.
Listing NGR: TQ3102282858
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 368933
- 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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