Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3181NE ISLINGTON GREEN 635-1/59/521 (East side) 24/04/79 Nos.23 AND 24 (Formerly Listed as: ISLINGTON GREEN Nos.19-21, 23 & 24 (Consecutive))

GV II

Terraced houses. 1761-2 by T.Rosoman, builder and then owner of the Sadlers Wells Theatre. These houses formed part of a row built by Rosoman with the houses on the site of the present nos 19-22. Brown brick with clay tiled roof. Four storeys, three windows each. Original ground floor obscured by C19 shop extensions with console-stops to fascia as sole remaining features. First-floor windows flat-arched. second-floor windows very slightly segmental-arched, all with gauged brick heads and moulded sash boxes almost flush with the wall. 6/6 sashes to first floor and 3/3 to second. Storey band between first and second floors. Parapet rebuilt. Dormers in mansard roof. Stacks to projecting party walls. INTERIOR: of no 23: original staircase with open string, brackets, wreathed and ramped handrail and turned balusters, some replaced; the staircase also has a modillion cornice with acanthus and bead-and-reel ornament as far as second landing, where it simplifies; and it also has a panelled dado which alters to tongue-and-groove boarding at the third landing. Original architraves to doors of all rooms from first floor upwards, also to a number of cupboards flanking fireplaces. First-floor front room has a modillion cornice with egg-and-dart and acanthus ornament, panelled dado with rail renewed, and panelled window embrasures; first-floor back room has a similar cornice, panelled dado and vestiges of panelling to walls; second-floor front has a panelled dado, simple modillion cornice, panelled window embrasures and eared architrave to fire surround with mantelshelf; second-floor back has simplified modillion cornice; simple wooden fire surrounds to third floor. INTERIOR: of no 24: original staircase with open string, brackets, wreathed and ramped handrail and turned balusters, mostly replacement. Panelled dado, architraves, modillion cornice and panelled window embrasures to staircase and first-floor front, dado panelling, cornice and architraves only to second-floor front and back rooms; plain deal panelling to staircase on second and third floors. (Historians' file, English Heritage London Division).

Listing NGR: TQ3172683615

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