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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26490152

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