Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3184SE CANONBURY SQUARE
635-1/53/189 (South side)
20/09/54 Nos.1-12 (Consecutive)
and attached railings

GV II

Terraced houses. 1821. Developed by Richard Laycock. Grey
brick laid in Flemish bond, stucco, roof obscured by parapet.
Four storeys over basement, two windows each. Nos 1-2, 6-7,
and ll-l2 project slightly. Steps up to round-arched entrance
with engaged Greek Doric columns, cornice, fanlight with
decorative glazing, panelled door of original design.
Ground-floor window elliptical-arched with gauged brick head,
set within a recessed panel of the same kind. Nos 1- 2, 6-7,
and 11-12 are distinguished by channelled rusticated stucco to
ground floor and entrances with elliptical arches and simple
doorcases; nos 6-7 have a double open porch of Greek Doric
columns carrying a single entablature; nos 1-2 and 11-12 have
only the rear pilasters of such a scheme. Nos 1, 4-9, and
11-12 have 2/4 sashes with pointed-arched glazing bars. Stucco
band between floors. All upper windows flat-arched with gauged
brick heads and 6/6 sashes to first and second floor, 3/6 to
most third-floor windows. First-floor windows have piano
nobile proportions and are set within recessed round-arched
panels with gauged brick heads, the arcade linked by a stucco
springing band. Shallow iron balconies to all first floor
windows except no 5 which has a deeper balcony carried on
brackets with iron railings. Cornice band above second floor.
Parapet. Single-storey extension to side of no 1 with one
elliptical-arched window set within similar recessed panel. No
8 has an LCC tablet recording the residence of Samuel Phelps,
tragedian. Cast-iron railings to area.
(Historians' file, English Heritage London Division).

Listing NGR: TQ3179684408

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26490085

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Recommended Books

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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (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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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings