Numbers 38 to 39 (Consecutive) And Attached Railings
NUMBERS 38 TO 39 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 38-39, WILMINGTON SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297954
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 38 to 39 (Consecutive) And Attached Railings
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 38 TO 39 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 38-39, WILMINGTON SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297954
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 38 to 39 (Consecutive) And Attached Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 38 TO 39 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 38-39, WILMINGTON SQUARE
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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:
- NUMBERS 38 TO 39 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 38-39, WILMINGTON SQUARE
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 31114 82546
Details
ISLINGTON
TQ3182NW WILMINGTON SQUARE 635-1/68/907 (North West side) 29/09/72 Nos.38-39 (Consecutive) and attached railings
GV II
Two terraced houses. 1819-1841; much rebuilt by Islington Council 1969. By John Wilson, builder for Lord Compton and the Spa Fields Estate. Yellow stock brick laid in Flemish bond with banded stucco ground-floor and stucco dressings; roofs obscured by parapet, stacks not visible. Originally probably side-hall entrance plan; now centre-hall entrance plan. Three storeys with basement; 5 windows each plus 1 window (blind) to left-hand return wall in Attneave Street. Symmetrical and double-fronted. Steps rise to entrance: round-arched doorway set in narrow stucco recess with fluted 1/4 column jambs carrying corniced-head, patterned fanlight, and C20 panelled door. Ground-floor round-arched sashes with 6/6 curved and radial glazing bars with raised basement sashes in lieu of panel below. Gauged-brick flat arches to upper storeys except 1st floor sashes. 1st floor stucco sill band beneath full-length 6/6 sashes with individual cast-iron balconies with anthemion and Vitruvian scroll pattern to railings. 2nd floor 3/3 sashes. Projecting stucco cornice and blocking course; plain brick parapet with stone coping to left return. Attached cast-iron railings with floral tops and pineapple finials. Wilmington Square was created from the Earls of Northampton's Spa Fields Estate, which in 1817 the 9th Earl asigned to his heir Lord Compton. The subsequent building in Wilmington Square was one of London's 1st post-Waterloo developments. Progress was piecemeal: the south terrace was the 1st and grandest; nos. 38-39 not completed until 1841. For financial reasons the square was reduced in depth and thus became a backwater on the fringes of estates. (The Squares of Islington: Cosh, M: The Squares of Islington Part I: Finsbury and Clerkenwell: Islington: 1990-: 93-98).
Listing NGR: TQ3111482546
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 369436
- 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.
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