Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3182NW MYDDELTON SQUARE
635-1/68/641 (West side)
29/09/72 Nos.58-62, 63-65, AND 66
and attached railings and gatepiers

GV II

Terrace of nine houses, some now flats, at NW corner of
Myddelton Square, no. 58 faces onto Mylne Street and forms
entrance to square. 1824-1827. By William Chadwell Mylne,
Surveyor to the New River Estate. Yellow stock brick set in
Flemish bond with banded stucco ground-floor and stucco
dressings; Welsh-slate gabled roofs, dormers to nos. 62-65,
no. 64 mansard roof, brick party-wall stacks. Side-hall
entrance plan. Four storeys with basement; 2 windows each plus
left-hand return wall to no. 66 in Inglebert Street of
3-window range plus extension. Steps rise to round and
elliptical-arched entrance to left (no. 58 has
segmental-arched entrance to right and late C19 bay window to
left ground-floor; nos. 63 and 65 door changed to sashes; no.
66 with projecting stucco entrance in return): doorway with
architraved surrounds (nos. 62-66) and others set in stucco
recess; 3/4 fluted column jambs (nos. 59-62), reeded surround
(no. 64) or panelled pilaster jambs carrying corniced-head
(no. 58 entrance set within flanking stucco pilasters carrying
entablature) fanlight (nos. 58-59, 66 patterned) and original
panelled door (no. 66 with double doors) to nos. 58-62, 63-65,
66. Ground-floor round and elliptical-arched sashes set in
architraved surround or stucco recess with panel below. Gauged
brick flat-arched mostly 6/6 and 3/3 sashes to upper floors.
1st floor stucco sill band beneath full-length sashes set in
arched recesses linked by stucco impost bands and with
iron-bracketed coupled (except no. 58 individual) cast-iron
balconies with Vitruvian scroll and anthemion pattern to
railings. Some rebuilding to upper floors; plain brick parapet
with brick string course and stone coping. Attached cast-iron
railings with urn and acorn finials; Neoclassical style
cast-iron entrance-gate piers to no. 58. This is the largest
square in the area aside from Finsbury Square. It is
considered by some to be Islington's best and most important
adornment of the New River Estate, and stylistically, it is
the most cohesive in the district.
(The Squares of Islington: Cosh, M: The Squares of Islington
Part I: Finsbury and Clerkenwell: Islington: 1990-: 59-62).

Listing NGR: TQ3123382932

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26490259

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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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