Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3184SE ALWYNE VILLAS
635-1/53/27 (West side)
29/09/72 Nos.27-37 (Odd)
(Formerly Listed as:
ALWYNE VILLAS
Nos.19-37 (Odd))

GV II

Terraced houses. Dated on a plaque on no 33 lettered
'CANONBURY TERRACE 1824'; no 31 rebuilt mid-C20. Developed by
Richard Laycock. Yellow brick set in Flemish bond, stucco,
roof obscured by parapet. Three storeys, two windows each.
Ground floor stuccoed with banded rustication.
Segmental-arched entrance with fluted quarter-columns carrying
deep cornice, panelled doors to all except no 33 which has C18
or early C19 door inserted; some original glazing to
fanlights. Ground-floor windows to nos 27 and 29 have cambered
arches and original sashes, those to nos 33-37 round arches,
glazing bars to nos 33 and 37 radiating with margin lights,
those to no 35 intersecting. First-floor windows have piano
nobile proportions, flat-arched with stuccoed heads to nos 27
and 29 and gauged brick heads to nos 33-37. Balconies with
iron railings to all first-floor windows, those to nos 33-7
having brackets. Second-floor windows flat-arched with
stuccoed heads to nos 27 and 29, gauged brick heads to no
33-37; original sashes to nos 27, 29 and 35. Stucco band and
parapet to nos 27-9, cornice and blocking course to nos 33-37.
No 31 has been rebuilt in English bond brickwork with only
doorcase, panelled door, overlight and proportions of ground
and second-floor windows remaining of orignal building.
(Historians' file, English Heritage London Division).

Listing NGR: TQ3193384431

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26490025

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)