Numbers 42-47 (Consecutive) And Attached Railings
NUMBERS 42-47 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 42-47, CANONBURY SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298097
- Date first listed:
- 20-Sept-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 42-47 (Consecutive) And Attached Railings
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 42-47 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 42-47, CANONBURY SQUARE
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298097
- Date first listed:
- 20-Sept-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 42-47 (Consecutive) And Attached Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 42-47 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 42-47, CANONBURY SQUARE
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 42-47 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 42-47, 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 31758 84467
Details
ISLINGTON
TQ3184SE CANONBURY SQUARE 635-1/53/195 (North side) 20/09/54 Nos.42-47 (Consecutive) and attached railings
GV II
Terraced houses. c.1810. Developed by Henry Leroux. Brown brick set in Flemish bond, roofs of Welsh slate. Four storeys above basement except no 47 of which only basement and ground floor remain; three windows each. Steps up to round-arched entrance with gauged brick heads, reeded pilaster-jambs of various designs, cornice, fanlight with decorative glazing bars, panelled doors of original design. No 47 has panelled doorcase, scrolled impost block and decorative keystone. Ground-floor windows round-arched with gauged brick heads, sashes with radiating glazing bars. All upper windows have flat arches and gauged brick heads. First-floor windows have piano nobile proportions, and balconies on brackets, with iron railings which appear to be replacements on all but no 46; the windows set within round-arched recessed panels with gauged brick heads. Parapet above second floor, dormers in mansard roof. Stacks to party walls. Early C19 rainwater-heads on nos 44 and 46. Cast-iron railings to area with spear and urn finials. (Mary Cosh: Typescript of forthcoming book on the squares of north Islington).
Listing NGR: TQ3175884467
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 368685
- 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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