Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3184SE CANONBURY LANE
635-1/53/146 (North side)
25/02/93 Nos.8-12 (Even)
and attached railings

GV II

Terraced houses. Mid-C19. Brown brick, stucco, roof obscured
by parapet. Four storeys above basement, two windows each, but
original entrance of no 10 altered to a window. Basement and
ground floor stuccoed, the ground floor decorated with banded
rustication. Steps up to flat-arched entrance with small
cornice on paired consoles, overlight; ground floor windows
flat-arched with moulded architraves. All upper windows
flat-arched with moulded architraves, first floor having
cornices on consoles and iron balconies, second floor floating
cornices; sashes with margin lights to first and second
floors. Sill band to third floor. Parapet. Stacks on party
walls. Area railings with leaf-and-bud finials.
The interior of no 8 has virtually all its original features:
cast-iron range in basement; staircase to all floors with
wreathed handrail and stick balusters, some missing; the front
and back rooms on the ground and first floors each have
cornice mouldings and ceiling rose, marble mantelpiece and
cast-iron fireplace; on the second floor there are cornice
mouldings in the front room and simpler mantelpieces and cast
iron fireplaces in both rooms; the third floor has small
cast-iron fireplaces; panelled doors and architraves
throughout.

Listing NGR: TQ3171684430

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26490073

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Recommended Books

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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)