Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3182SW EXMOUTH MARKET
635-1/73/386 (South side)
No.56

II

Terraced house with shop. c.1820-1830; C19 shopfront with C20
alterations. Multi-coloured stock brick set in Flemish bond,
wooden shopfront; roof obscured by parapet, left party-wall
brick stack. Shop plan to ground-floor; side-hall entrance
plan with staircase to upper domestic floors. Four storeys;
2-window range. Shop with angled shop entrance to right set in
deep recess and house entrance, also in recess, further to
right. Ground-floor articulated by console-bracketed
pilasters. Gauged-brick flat arches to upper 6/6 and 3/3
sashes; full-length sashes to 1st floor, windows decrease in
height as they go up. Coping stone to plain parapet.
History: Joseph Grimaldi, the most famous London clown, lived
here from 1818 until 1828, the year of his retirement. From
1800 he had dominated the stage of nearby Sadler's Wells as
the figure of Clown in the English harlequinade. His special
historic importance is due to the fact that many of his
innovations became distinctive characteristics of the
pantomime clown.
(The Cambridge Encyclopedia: Cambridge: 1990-: 526).

Listing NGR: TQ3131882494

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26490161

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Recommended Books

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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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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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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)