Numbers 43-55 (Odd) And Attached Railings
NUMBERS 43-55 (ODD) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, AMWELL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298105
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 43-55 (Odd) And Attached Railings
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 43-55 (ODD) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, AMWELL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298105
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 43-55 (Odd) And Attached Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 43-55 (ODD) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, AMWELL STREET
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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 43-55 (ODD) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, AMWELL STREET
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:
- TQ3115882866
Details
ISLINGTON
TQ3182NW
635-1/68/34
29/09/72
AMWELL STREET
(West side)
Nos.43-55 (Odd)
and attached railings
(Formerly Listed as:
AMWELL STREET
(West side)
Nos.33-65 (Odd))
GV
II
Seven terraced houses. Dated 1824; mid C19 shopfront to no.
53. By William Chadwell Mylne, Surveyor for the New River
Estate. Yellow stock brick set in Flemish bond with banded
stucco ground-floor and stucco dressings; roofs obscured,
party-wall brick stacks. Side-hall entrance plan; no. 53 with
ground-floor shop and side-hall entrance plan to upper floors.
Four storeys except no. 43 (three storeys) with basement; 2
windows each. Steps rise to round-arched entrance (except nos.
51 & 53): fluted 1/4 column jambs (nos. 51 & 53 plain)
carrying corniced-head, fanlight (nos. 47 & 49 patterned; no.
51 with overlight) and original panelled door to nos. 45-51
and 55. 2/2 and 6/6 sashes to ground-floors. No. 53 has mostly
intact shopfront: wide C19 panelled shop/house door to right;
altered C19 shop windows to left; fascia and projecting
cornice with C20 alterations. Gauged-brick flat arches with
6/6 and 3/3 sashes to upper floors; 1st floor stucco sill band
beneath full-length sashes set in arched brick recesses with
individual cast-iron balconies to nos. 45 and 55. Some
rebuilding to upper floors; between nos. 47 and 49 plaque at
2nd floor level inscribed 'Thompson's Terrace 1824'. Plain
brick parapet with stone coping; nos. 47 and 49 with stucco
band to parapet. Attached cast-iron railings with urn finials.
The terrace was known originally as Thompson's Terrace.
Listing NGR: TQ3115882866
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 368520
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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