Description

ALBERT SQUARE SW8
1. (north side)
5023

Nos 24 to 32 (consec)
TQ 3077 7/26 18.8.75 24 to 32 (consec)

II GV

2.
Symmetrical terrace with houses grouped 1.2.3.2.1. Each of 3 1/2 storeys, 2 or
3 windows wide. Stock brick with hipped slate roofs. Plentiful stucco dressings
include quoins and incised ground floor and basement, with banded panels and
entablature (with dentil cornice in places) resting on pilasters and engaged
columns; main entablature, with modillion cornice and curved brackets, at third
floor level; subsidiary cornice at second floor level and top cornice with
blocking course. Sash windows (many with glazing bars) in moulded architraves;
console bracketed cornices on first floor. Nos 24, 27, 29 and 32 have projecting
square bay, and grouped first floor windows under central pediment; pediment
also in group centre. All doors, and ground floor windows of intermediate houses,
are round-arched with impost string. Balustrades to areas and at sides of flights
of 6 steps to 4-panel doors with plain fanlights.

Listing NGR: TQ3069577096

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26355484

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