Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3182NE NORTHAMPTON SQUARE 635-1/69/665 (East side) 29/09/72 Nos.18,19,21 & 21A and attached railings (Formerly Listed as: NORTHAMPTON SQUARE Nos.18A & 21A)

GV II

Terraced houses, now offices. c.1810. Discoloured brick set in Flemish bond, stucco, mansard roofs of Welsh slate. Nos 19, 21 and 21A four storeys over basement, no. 18 no basement; the original two-window range of the houses survives but cannot be expressed in terms of the present numbering. Round-arched entrances, those facing Northampton Square having engaged Greek Doric columns, cornice with Greek key pattern, fanlight and panelled doors of original design; in the return to Ashby Street the entrance now consists of a flat-arched entrance with simple doorcase and overlight; in Sebastian Street there is one entrance with Ionic columns with acanthus leaves to the necking, modillion cornice, fanlight with decorative glazing and panelled door of original design; and another entrance further east in a single-storey extension, round-arched with cornice and fanlight, and flanked by coupled pilasters carrying entablature. Ground-floor windows round-arched and set within a round arch with gauged brick head; stucco storey band; first-floor windows flat-arched with gauged brick heads recessed within a round-arched panel with gauged brick head, and individual iron balconies; second-floor windows flat-arched. 6/6 sashes of original design to no 21A first and second floors. Brick dentil cornice and parapet. Dormers in mansard roof, stacks to original party walls. Return to Ashby Street has flat-arched windows to ground floor and lacks arches over first floor windows; 6/6 sashes of original design to upper windows. Return to Sebastian Street has four-window range, the two nearest to Northampton Square blank, and original rainwater head. Area railings with urn standards and spearhead finials. (The squares of Islington Part I. Finsbury and Clerkenwell: London: 1990-: P.65.).

Listing NGR: TQ3178882642

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