1-16 (Consecutive) and attached railings, Compton Terrace
1-16 (Consecutive) and attached railings, Compton Terrace
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293221
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 1-16 (Consecutive) and attached railings, Compton Terrace
- Statutory Address:
- 1-16 (Consecutive) and attached railings, Compton Terrace
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293221
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Sept-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 1-16 (Consecutive) and attached railings, Compton Terrace
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1-16 (Consecutive) and attached railings, Compton Terrace
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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:
- 1-16 (Consecutive) and attached railings, Compton Terrace
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 31662 84457
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 20 May 2025 to amend the text in the description and to reformat the text to current standards
TQ3184SE
635-1/53/336
ISLINGTON
COMPTON TERRACE (East side)
Nos.1-16 (Consecutive) and attached railings
(Formerly Listed as: COMPTON TERRACE Nos.1-10, 11, 12-18 (Consecutive))
29/09/72
GV
II
Terraced houses. 1819-21. Developed by Henry Flower and Samuel Kell. Brick with penny-struck lime mortar, stucco, roofs of slate. The original pattern for the terrace appears to have been: three storeys over basement, three bays wide, round-arched entrances with fluted quadrant pilasters to door frames, fanlights and panelled doors; all windows with flat arches of gauged brick, those to the first floor having a sill band and cast-iron balconies with quadrant corners; simple parapet. Cast-iron railings with spearhead and urn finials. Original glazing bars are common. There are dormers in a mansard roof to nos 1-5, 9 and 14-16, and there are the following individual variations: no 1 has three windows to the ground floor and a two-storey stuccoed entrance wing to the south; porch with Corinthian columns, and a return into Canonbury Lane which has banded rustication and four windows with cast- iron grilles to the ground floor; the third floor return of the main terrace here has three windows with flat arches of gauged brick set under round arches on pilaster strips with springing bands. No 3 has the responds and entablature of a stuccoed porch only remaining, no 5 has a corinthian porch with side balustrade, no 7 has a cast-iron porch of late-Cl9 date, and no 12 has banded rustication in stucco on the ground floor. There is a clear break in the brickwork between nos 4 and 5. Area railings with spearhead and urn finials; basement overthrows to nos 4, 5, 11 and 12.
(Historians' file, English Heritage London Division; Mary Cosh: Typescript of forthcoming book on the squares of north Islington).
Listing NGR: TQ3166284457
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 368829
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Cosh, M, The Squares of Islington in Finsbury and Clerkenwell, (1990)
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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