Latitude: 51.5385 / 51°32'18"N
Longitude: -0.1119 / 0°6'42"W
OS Eastings: 531045
OS Northings: 183872
OS Grid: TQ310838
Mapcode National: GBR M2.1N
Mapcode Global: VHGQT.0LQD
Plus Code: 9C3XGVQQ+C7
Entry Name: Numbers 68 to 72 (Even) and Attached Railings and Garden Gate
Listing Date: 29 September 1972
Last Amended: 30 September 1994
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1195710
English Heritage Legacy ID: 369227
ID on this website: 101195710
Location: Barnsbury, Islington, London, N1
County: London
District: Islington
Electoral Ward/Division: Barnsbury
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Islington
Traditional County: Middlesex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: St Andrew Barnsbury
Church of England Diocese: London
Tagged with: Building
ISLINGTON
TQ3183NW RICHMOND AVENUE 635-1/58/707 (South side) 29/09/72 Nos.68-72 (Even) and attached railings and garden gate (Formerly Listed as: RICHMOND AVENUE (South side) Nos.62-72 (Even))
GV II
Terrace of 3 attached villas. c.1841. Yellow stock bricks set in Flemish bond with stucco ground floor and dressings; Welsh-slate hipped roof with coupled brackets to projecting eaves and centre brick stacks. Side-hall entrance plan with staircase. Greco-Egyptian style and detail. Three storeys with basement; 2 windows each. Ground-floor bays articulated by stylised rounded pilasters with paterae to tops; horizontal row of paterae extends between pilasters above entrance and sash. Steps rise to deeply recessed entrance porch to right bay (nos. 68 & 70) and to left bay (no. 72) with flanking stone sphinxes and obelisks on stucco balustrades (sphinxes missing from no. 70); doorway with pilaster jambs carrying corniced-head, original 4-panelled studded door and rectangular overlight. 6/6 sashes throughout: ground-floor sashes with margin lights. Recessed stucco panels below ground-floor sashes; upper floors with stylised architraved sashes decorated with paterae. 1st floor with moulded stucco storey band and cast-iron Neoclassical style window-guards with palmette motif. Linked garden gate attached to no. 72 in same style but with iron guards removed; all houses with attached cast-iron area railings. In 1925 Arnold Bennett wrote in his diary after taking a trip to explore Barnsbury...'The sphinxes and little Cleopatra needles in front of the porticoes of a long row of houses in Richmond Road [sic] are too marvellous.'
Listing NGR: TQ3104583872
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