Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3284SW DOUGLAS ROAD 635-1/54/362 (South East side) Nos.37, 38 & 39

GV II

Terraced houses. c.1855. Developed, and probably designed, by James Wagstaffe. Yellow-grey brick set in Flemish bond, stucco, roofs of Welsh and artifical slate. Two and three storeys over basement, three windows each; no. 38 double-fronted, nos 37 and 39 forming symmetrical wings of three storeys to two bays, then a two-storey bay set back, and then a single-storey porch set back again. Basement stuccoed and decorated with banded and chamfered rustication. Steps up to entrance, no 38 having doorcase of superimposed pilasters and entablature with dentil cornice, overlight and panelled door; nos 37 and 39 have stucco porch with antae, cornice and blocking course, simple doorcase, overlight and panelled door. All windows flat-arched. Ground- floor windows to no 38 have panelled stucco architraves, segmental pediments on consoles and iron balconies; those to nos 37 and 39 have panelled stucco architraves and pediments on consoles and iron balconies to two inner bays, moulded stucco architraves and cornices on consoles to outer bay, cornice and consoles lacking on no 37; first-floor windows have stucco architraves, frieze of paterae and cornice to no 38 and two inner bays of nos 37 and 39, moulded stucco architrave only to outer bays of nos 37 and 39, which also have stucco cornice and parapet. Second-floor windows have moulded stucco architraves; boxed eaves supported on brackets. Hipped roof, party walls projecting and carrying stacks. (Historians' file, English Heritage London Division).

Listing NGR: TQ3220184441

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