Listing
Search the List

What is Listing?

Listing Guidance

Apply for Listing

Missing Pieces Project

Blue Plaque Scheme
Listing

Find out about listed buildings and other protected sites, and search the National Heritage List for England (NHLE).

Find out about listing

Terracotta tiles on the roof of Saintoft Lodge, Newton-on-Rawcliffe, Ryedale, North Yorkshire. Grade II listed © Historic England Archive DP371715
Advice
Climate Change

Heritage at Risk

Your Home

Technical Guidance

Planning

Caring for Heritage

Constructive Conservation
Advice

Our expert advice to help you care for and protect historic places.

Get our advice

A contractor cutting bricks for the wall of the partially-restored wild and natural walled garden at Warley Place, Brentwood. Explore our technical advice section © Historic England Archive DP313199
Research
Our Research Strategy and Agenda

Research Governance

Latest Research

Research Methods

Current Research

Research Results

Support & Collaboration

Inclusive Heritage

Heritage Counts
Research

Discover and use our high-quality applied research to support the protection and management of the historic environment.

Discover our research

Archaeologist Dr David Neal discussing his illustration of the mosaic being excavated at Rutland Roman Villa with members of the University of Leicester Archaeological Services team View image DP264265 © Historic England
Images & Books
Find Photos

Search All Publications

Buy Books

The Historic England Archive
Images & Books

Historic England holds an extensive range of publications and historic collections in its public archive covering the historic environment.

Browse our collections

Crowds flock around the Skylon and Dome of Discovery at the Festival of Britain South Bank Site on 12 May 1951. Both structures were dismantled at the end of the Festival in 1952. Photographer: Aerofilms Ltd, Image reference: Source: Historic England Archive EAW035702
Services & Skills
Education

Grants

Our Planning Services

Training & Skills

Archive Services

Heritage Action Zones

Levelling Up Places Service
Services & Skills

Find out about services offered by Historic England for funding, planning, education and research, as well as training and skill development.

Learn about our services

Heritage Apprentices in a training session on the Researching The Historic Environment module and training in Architectural Photography. Find out more about Heritage Apprenticeships © Historic England Archive DP347660
What's New
News

In Your Area

Historic England Blog

Latest Research

Heritage Online Debate

Statements

Stay up to Date
What's New

Read about our current news, projects and campaigns nationally and in your area.

Catch up with what's new

Two horsemen reading The Sportsman, 30 Oct 1902, Farnborough, Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire. Part of the Alfred Newton and Sons collection. Source Historic England Archive. BB98/02592
About Us
What We Do

Who We Are

How We Are Funded

Contact Us

Careers

Volunteer with Historic England
About Us

Historic England is the public body that helps people care for, enjoy and celebrate England's spectacular historic environment.

Find out more

Mountbatten House (formerly Gateway House), Basing View, Basingstoke, the former headquarters for the paper merchants Wiggins Teape by Arup Associates. Listed at Grade II. © Historic England
Sign in
Manage my account

Sign out

40 TO 47 WILMINGTON SQUARE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS

40 TO 47, WILMINGTON SQUARE, LONDON, WC1X 0ET

Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places

Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1292455
Date first listed:: 28-Sep-1972
List Entry Name:: 40 TO 47 WILMINGTON SQUARE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: 40 TO 47, WILMINGTON SQUARE, LONDON, WC1X 0ET

User submitted image — Uploaded by Dominic Martin This photo may not represent the current condition of the site
View all

Location

Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.

What is the National Heritage List for England?

The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.

The list includes:

🏠 Buildings
🏰 Scheduled monuments
🌳 Parks and gardens
⚔️ Battlefields
⚓ Shipwrecks

Find out more about listing

Images of England Project

To view this image please use Firefox, Chrome, Safari, or Edge.

Archive image, may not represent current condition of site.

Date:: 2000-09-08
Reference:: IOE01/02990/09
Rights:: © Peter Fuller. Source: Historic England Archive

Historic England Archive

Search over 1 million photographs and drawings from the 1850s to the present day using our images archive.

Find Photos

Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1292455
Date first listed:: 28-Sep-1972
Date of most recent amendment:: 29-Sep-1994
List Entry Name:: 40 TO 47 WILMINGTON SQUARE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: 40 TO 47, WILMINGTON SQUARE, LONDON, WC1X 0ET

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: 40 TO 47, WILMINGTON SQUARE, LONDON, WC1X 0ET

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 31141 82517

Details

TQ3182NW 635-1/68/908

ISLINGTON WILMINGTON SQUARE (South West side) Nos.40-47 (Consecutive) and attached railings (Formerly Listed as: WILMINGTON SQUARE (South West side) Nos.40-45 (Consecutive) and WILMINGTON (South West side) Nos.46-47 (Consecutive))

29/09/72 GV II Eight terraced houses,1819-1831. By John Wilson, builder for Lord Compton and the Spa Fields Estate. Yellow stock brick laid in Flemish bond with banded and rusticated (Nos. 40 and 47) stucco ground-floor and stucco dressings; roofs obscured by parapet, brick party-wall stacks. Side-hall entrance plan with staircase. Four storeys with basement; two windows each plus one window to right-hand return wall in Attneave Street (No. 40). Symmetrical group with projecting end-houses. Steps rise to entrance (No.40 with one storey entrance extension): round-arched doorway set in narrow stucco recess with fluted 1/4 column jambs except No. 40 (reeded jambs with stops) carrying corniced-head, fanlight (Nos. 40, 42, 43, 47 patterned), and original panelled door (Nos. 42 and 47 C20). Ground-floor round-arched sashes with 6/6 curved and radial glazing bars. Gauged-brick flat arches to upper storeys except first floor sashes to right-end house which are gauged-brick round arches. First floor stucco sill band (removed from No. 40) beneath full-length 6/6 sashes with individual (except Nos. 44, 45 and 47 coupled and supported by iron brackets) cast-iron balconies. Stucco storey bands to second (6/6 sashes) and third (3/3 sashes) floors; third floor also has projecting stucco cornice and sill band except No. 47 which has been cut-back and rendered in concrete. Altered stucco cornice and blocking course, except No. 47 which has been cut-back, heightened and rendered in concrete. Attached cast-iron railings with urn finials.

Wilmington Square was created from the Earls of Northampton's Spa Fields Estate, which in 1817 the ninth Earl assigned to his heir Lord Compton.The subsequent building in Wilmington Square was one of London's first post-Waterloo developments. Progress was piecemeal: the south terrace was the first and grandest; Nos. 40-47 in the west terrace were completed in 1831. For financial reasons the square was reduced in depth and thus became a backwater on the fringes of estates. Listing NGR: TQ3114182517

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 369437
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Cosh, M, 'The Squares of Islington' in Finsbury and Clerkenwell, , Vol. 1, (1990), 93-98

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.