79-85, ESSEX ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1292894
Date first listed:: 20-Oct-1989
List Entry Name:: 79-85, ESSEX ROAD
Statutory Address:: 79-85, ESSEX ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1292894
Date first listed:: 20-Oct-1989
List Entry Name:: 79-85, ESSEX ROAD
Statutory Address 1:: 79-85, ESSEX ROAD

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:: 79-85, ESSEX ROAD

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 31867 83845

Details

ISLINGTON

TQ3183NE ESSEX ROAD 635-1/59/380 (West side) 20/10/89 Nos.79-85 (Odd)

II

Terrace of four houses, now shops and offices. Late C17, refronted late C18 and extended C20. Red-brown brick to the gable end walls, some stock brick, the remainder rendered or painted. Four bays of original hipped tile roofs, mostly pitched tile roofs elsewhere, some slate. Two storeys over basement with dormers in attic; ground-floor front extension. First floor has rendered facade, and quoins at angles and between groups of windows. Rendered band with dropped keystones over windows. Windows grouped 5:5:1, mostly sashes, some blocked. Five flat-roofed full dormers, with casements of mixed glazing frame and are behind parapet. Gable parapets. Left-hand internal gable stack. Central stack forward of ridge. Ridge stack to right. Left-hand return: lower wall in exposed red-brown brick, rendered above. Stock brick and rendered slate-roofed extension to rear, with slate-hung upper-storey room resting on it. Tall stack. Four bays of hipped roofs with moulded timber eaves to side. Varied windows at full and mid-storey levels to rear, some flush-set, small-paned sashes, with glazing bars. Round-arched small-paned sash to stairwell. INTERIOR: : original rooms largely intact above ground floor: on the left hand, dog-leg staircase of three flights with moulded tread ends, simple ramped mahogany rail with pronounced curtail, continuing above as late C17 closed string staircase with twisted balusters, at upper landing alternating with turned balusters; plain square newels with half-balusters set into moulded caps, moulded rail. First-floor front room, now of five windows bays, formerly two rooms; that to left retaining most of moulded cornice of early phase of building. Doors of six recessed panels. To rear, at half-landing level, under slate roof, room with barrel-vaulted ceiling, moulded dado rail and skirting, door of six recessed panels, recessed panelled reveals to two rear-facing sashes. Classical fireplace, with cast-iron grate flanked by cupboards with six-panel doors. Rear room partly divided off as passage, with plain panelled dado and moulded middle rail suggesting full-height panelling may survive behind upper boarding. Attic floor, mostly boarded over but panelling may survive beneath it. Simple fireplace. Coupled rafter roof with collars where visible. Central staircase: late C17 closed-string dog-leg staircase rising intact from basement to attic; square newels with recessed panels; turned balusters, heavy moulded rail; dado panelling to stairwell, some matchboard panelling. First-floor front room of two bays: complete late C17 panelling, mostly plain but with raised moulded panel to overmantel; simple door architrave blocked. Right-hand staircase has stick balusters at base, turned balusters to upper storey. Plain panelled walls and stairwell. First-floor front room retains some moulded dado rail. Very rare survival of late C17 houses in Islington Green area, where most were redeveloped in late C18.

Listing NGR: TQ3186783845

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Legacy System number:: 368880
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.