Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3183NE GIBSON SQUARE 635-1/59/414 (East side) 29/09/72 Nos.44-70 (Consecutive) and attached railings

GV II

Terraced houses. c.1828-30. Yellow brick set in Flemish bond, stucco, roofs of Welsh and artificial slate, so far as visible. Three and four storeys over basement, two windows each, except to nos 50 and 69 which have one window each. Nos 49-70 form a symmetrical group in relation to Gibson Square, nos 58-61 being a centrepiece, breaking forward, nos 49-51 and 68-70 endpieces also breaking forward; the endpieces have three pairs of giant pilasters with entablature, and a pediment to the middle house. Basement and ground floor stuccoed, the ground floor decorated with banded rustication; steps up to round-arched entrance with pilaster jambs which are panelled except to nos 46 (reeded), 50 and 51 (plain) and 65, 66 and 70 which have pilasters partly sunk in the jamb, cornice, fanlight, with decorative glazing to nos 42-7, 49-51, 53-58, 62-63, 65 and 69; some panelled doors. Ground-floor window round-arched with radiating glazing bars to all, except that on nos 47-49, 51, 56, 59-60, 67-68 they are either missing or replaced. First-floor windows flat-arched with stucco architrave and cornice except on nos 58-61 which have round-arched windows with gauged brick heads and radiating glazing bars to nos 58-60; iron balconies to all except no 68. Second-floor windows are flat-arched with stucco architraves. Cornice and attic storey to nos 44-5 and 58-61, the rest having a stucco band to the parapet, entablature and pediments to nos 49-51 and 68-70. Stacks on party walls. Cast-iron railings to area with ball-and-disc and spear and tassel finials.

Listing NGR: TQ3151083851

External Links

• Wikidata Q26490169

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