Numbers 13-24 (Consecutive) And Attached Railings
NUMBERS 13-24 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 13-24, CANONBURY SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298095
- Date first listed:
- 20-Sept-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 13-24 (Consecutive) And Attached Railings
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 13-24 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 13-24, CANONBURY SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298095
- Date first listed:
- 20-Sept-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Sept-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 13-24 (Consecutive) And Attached Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 13-24 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 13-24, CANONBURY 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 13-24 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 13-24, CANONBURY 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 31861 84430
Details
ISLINGTON
TQ3184SE CANONBURY SQUARE 635-1/53/190 (South side) 20/09/54 Nos.13-24 (Consecutive) and attached railings (Formerly Listed as: CANONBURY SQUARE Formerly listed as Nos 13, 14, 14a, 15, 15a & 15b, 16-24 (consec))
GV II
Terraced houses. 1821. Developed by Richard Laycock. Grey brick set in Flemish bond, stucco, roofs of Welsh slate. Four storeys above basement, two windows each. Nos 17-20 form a centrepiece and are set forward slightly, as are nos 13-14 and 23-24. Basement and ground floor stuccoed, the ground floor with channelled rustication. Steps up to round-arched entrance with fluted or panelled pilasters supporting modillion cornice on all up to no 21; nos 22-24 have fluted quarter-columns, fanlights with decorative glazing and panelled doors of original design. No 13 has single-storey side entrance. Ground-floor windows round-arched, the sashes with intersecting glazing bars, and margin-lights on all but nos 13 and 24. All upper windows flat-arched. The first-floor windows have piano nobile proportions and 6/6 sashes, and on nos 13-16 and 21-24 are set in recessed round-arched panels with gauged brick heads, the arcade linked by a moulded springing band. Balconies to first-floor windows supported on brackets with iron railings, some to individual windows, some shared. Cornice above second floor, intact only on nos 13-14, 17-22. On nos 17-20 the wall is carried up above cornice to form an attic storey with stuccoed parapet; on all the rest, except no 24 which has no fourth storey, mansard roofs with dormers behind parapets. Cast-iron railings to area. Evelyn Waugh lived at no 17A from 1928-30. (Historians' file, English Heritage London Division; Eric Willatts: Streets with a story. The book of Islington: London: 1986-).
Listing NGR: TQ3186184430
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 368680
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Willatts, E, Streets with a story The book of Islington London, (1986)
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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