Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3181NE BRITTON STREET 635-1/77/95 (West side) 16/02/72 Nos.30, 31 & 32

GV II

Terraced houses, now offices at nos 30 and 32. 1720-23. Developed by Simon Michell and built by George Greaves. Yellow brick set in Flemish bond, tiled roofs so far as visible. Four storeys over basement, two windows each. No. 30 has late C20 replacement shop or office front; first and second floors stuccoed, with moulded architraves to flat-arched windows and 6/6 sashes of original design; parapet; dormer to full width of roof. No. 31 has a flat-arched entrance with reeded architrave, cornice and overlight, the head of the architrave continuing as a cornice over two flat-arched windows; segmental-arched windows to first and second floors with heads of gauged red brick and red brick storey band; parapet; dormer with wooden cornice in mansard roof. No. 32 has late C20 replacement shop or office front; segmental-arched windows to first and second floors with gauged brick heads to first floor, frames set almost flush with the wall and red brick storey band; parapet; dormer in mansard roof. Rainwater head between nos. 31 and 32 with '1984 H' inscribed; stacks to party walls. INTERIOR: no. 31 has simple, unmoulded panelling generally to all three principal floors, the north, party wall in the entrance hall and stairwell panelled only to dado height, the rest to full height with cornices of wood or plaster. Corner chimneys to all back rooms rebuilt as cupboards. Staircase with turned balusters and closed string. Ground floor front and back rooms now one, the panelling altered in respect of early C19 mouldings to dado and either side of front windows, replacement panelling to south wall of front room apart from front china cupboard, replacement panelling to arch between rooms as far as post on passage side, and rebuilding of corner chimney to back room. First-floor front room lacks panelling to front wall. INTERIOR: of nos 30 and 32 not inspected. (Historians' file, English Heritage London Division).

Listing NGR: TQ3165581953

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