Numbers 21 and 22 and Attached Railings
NUMBERS 21 AND 22 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 21 AND 22, COMPTON TERRACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298083
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 21 and 22 and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 21 AND 22 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 21 AND 22, COMPTON TERRACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298083
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Sept-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 21 and 22 and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 21 AND 22 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 21 AND 22, COMPTON TERRACE
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 21 AND 22 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 21 AND 22, 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 31661 84619
Details
ISLINGTON
TQ3184NE COMPTON TERRACE 635-1/46/339 (East side) 29/09/72 Nos.21 AND 22 and attached railings (Formerly Listed as: COMPTON TERRACE Nos.19-25 (Consecutive))
GV II
Terraced houses. 1827-31. Developed by Henry Flower and Samuel Kell. Brick, stucco and roofs of slate. Four storeys over basement, three windows each. Ground floor and basement stuccoed with banded rustication to the ground floor; flat-arched entrances with fanlight and double panelled doors of original design; windows have flat arches, those to first, second and third floors being of gauged brick; sill band and continuous cast-iron balconies to first floor. Original glazing bars. Parapet. Area railings with spearhead and urn finials, and basement overthrows. (Historians' file, English Heritage London Division; Mary Cosh: Typescript of forthcoming book on the squares of north Islington).
Listing NGR: TQ3166184619
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 368832
- 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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